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 --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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