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 business: openmarket.com personal: allegro-AT-thecia.net War and Romance: http://www.thecia.net/users/allegro/public_html --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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