Ha! Yes, pragmatically, methodologically, in almost every way that matters in the world, there is such a thing as a ground truth and only fools mealy mouth their way around it. When I was a kid, waiting at the bus stop, a fellow bus rider said "I don't believe in gravity." We were, like, 9 years old at the time. Having been continuously indoctrinated in Catholic concepts of the universe, I knew immediately what she meant, because ... you know, I didn't believe in God. The point is that gravity and God are similar things to a 9 year old (that's not exceptionally advanced). They're just names for non-evident, far-flung, conceptual things. Denying that such conversations are relevant and important seems a bit short-sighted.
On 2/11/21 10:34 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I can't find the clip now, but I'm reminded of scene in a drama (Queen of the > South?) where a journalist is confronted by a bad guy who proposes "Let's > find out whether the pen is indeed mightier than the sword." He stabs the > journalist in the stomach and he dies. That kind of sets my threshold of > tolerance for open-ended bullshit about the impossibility of truth. Because > that guy was dead. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
