Non-mathematical truth is at best a matter of perception, and at worst thinly veiled opinion, wouldn't you agree?
No.
Robert Ziegler seems to take the position that truth is a matter of perception or opinion. You don't agree.
I think the search for the truth is very important. It is also very difficult.
One of the key tools we have in the search for truth is reason. Another is criticism. If we apply reason to various theories about the truth we can build up a better picture of the truth. If we criticize these theories, especially as they linger about, we can replace weak theories about the truth with more effective ones.
Actually arriving at the underlying truth or the real truth if you will is very difficult. Most people, whether they admit it or not, have theories about what the truth is which strongly color their perceptions. Many people won't willingly look at evidence which challenges their ideas about the truth.
For example, many people believe that Federal Reserve Notes are US dollars. Many people believe that dollars are a good store of value, in spite of continuing evidence that inflation has eroded most of the value of the so-called dollar since the Federal Reserve was organized in 1913. Some of these people seem to believe that gold is a barbaric metal whose use is archaic.
These theories are badly deluded. The truth is that the dollar was defined - fixed or established - in 1792 as 371.25 grains of silver, one twentieth of an ounce of gold, or a certain number of pennyweights of copper. The Federal Reserve Note bears no relationship to any of these things.
The truth is that over 96% of the value of the dollar has been inflated away since 1913. So, what we call a dollar today is comparable in value to less than a nickel in 1913. By the way, it appears that the Federal Reserve is now committed to a policy of further inflation, which ought to prove useful for a higher exchange rate between dollars and gold.
The truth is that gold is an objective value, a true store of wealth. It may be barbaric in the Latin sense. Celts and Gauls and other breeds of "homo indomitus" were fond of gold torcs which they wore at all times to indicate their ability to create and store wealth. Homo indomitus is Latin for "undominated man." So, in that sense, the metal is very barbaric.
Its use is not archaic, though, any more than any other aspect of freedom is archaic.
The search for truth about money requires inquiry into the facts. It requires the application of facts to demolish theories which don't explain the existing facts. That's true of the search for other kinds of truth, as well.
Regards,
Jim http://www.houstonspacesociety.org/
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