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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:43:41 -0400
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: The Western Canon University reprised...


Walter Okshevsky wrote:
> 
> I may be missing something here, but a glance is an event and, as such,
> can be neither true nor false. Only statements or propositions have
> truth-value.

	This, of course, is what Aristotle (and most everyone after him) said, that
truth is a property of propositions, of language.  This logic of truth is, of
course, always seeking an absolutely true statement, and unqualifiedly true
proposition, which is why, I would suggest, that this conception of truth
inevitably 'produced' Hegel and his notion of the "speculative proposition," of
truth-as-system.  
	Without going into it, I might suggest that making reducing the conception to
truth as propositional doesn't work -- Wittgenstein and Heidegger are only two
individuals who have tried to show this.  

Ciao,
Reg


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