Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy I look at it this way : No matter how you slice it, it's still salami.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/17/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Platonist Guitar Cowboy Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-17, 10:40:52 Subject: Re: What is truth ? Take your pick. Hi guys, On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Stephen P. King <stephe...@charter.net> wrote: On 12/17/2012 9:04 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King ? There are many definitions of truth (see below): ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth ? I like Whitehead's, which describes contemporary politics: ? Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead, a British mathematician who became an American philosopher[citation needed], said: "There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that play the devil". The logical progression or connection of this line of thought is to conclude that truth can lie, since half-truths are deceptive and may lead to a false conclusion. Hi Roger, ?? I am a massively huge fan of A.N. Whitehead. ;-) You might make sense of my fight with Bruno given this alternative, non-Platonic, way of thinking of Truth. Whitehead is a devil then because then the half-truth rule can be no exception to his whole truth rule. It is therefore a one quarter truth. No! Wait! It is a 1/8th truth. Sh*t! It just transformed into a 1/16th truth... Cowboy does this for one countable infinity. That's pretty cruel of Whitehead. He made me lose an infinity! WTF? That's more time lost than sifting over our ideological, soapbox posts in this list. C'mon guys, really? You really mean REALLY? I have no problem with devils; that is if they are seriously too weird. But will leave them to pay the drink if they are weirdly too serious :) Same rule for aliens, angels, elks, gods, people, especially philosophers (the most unbelievable fantasy creature imho) because this cowboy weirdness rule works in any universe. Caveat: only works for people who are weird enough. My point: So get rigorously weird.? Cowboy ? -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
