File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 219


Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:33:44 -0400
From: Stirling Newberry <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Meanings and Meanings


Raggo wrote:
>
>
>Interesting, as always to consider what remains the same, that the
>unequivocal meaning misses the necessity of an active interpretation. It
>has the absoluteness of truth which science has adopted and baptized unto
>itself.

It is interesting to observe that the notion of science as absolute truth
is far more common to non-scientists than to scientists. Science believes
in an external truth, and it claims that understanding that external truth
makes strong claims about other formulations and statements, but it does
not claim to possess absolute truth. Indeed many prominent scientists, for
example Penrose, would say that many aspects of that truth are outside the
scope of the certain...



Stirling Newberry
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