Obviously, according to your expressions, if fact is disputable, mutable through human interpretation and perception then there are no facts.
So shall we begin to dispel some well known facts as myths? If I stick my hand in "boiling water" it is not a "fact" that my hand will get scalded but just a figment of my imagination, the imagination that I perceive to "exist". The sun that I see in the sky may not really be there but only exists as a result of human perceptions of...... "what a sun is as well as how it appears to arise, cross the heavens and then hide beneath the earth, or, the concept of the earth rotating allowing the above appearances to occur..." If we attribute everything to "human thought" then the whole of the conversation is moot, the interview with Ayn Rand was just a dream. It is not a fact that anything exists, in "nano thought". Note: The above post may not exist for some. BUT WAIT!! THERE'S MORE!! >From the Eternity thread an excerpt from the much revered Justintruth.......................quotes added to "Fact" for your convenience. Justintruth View profile Here is what I have been able to get from reading: Consider the "fact" that 1+1=2. Given the normal meaning of "1" and "+ "add "2" this fact is true. But this "fact" never happened. It is an eternal truth. Eternality is the place of meaning - where meaning is. The previous sentence being more correct when one understands that "place" and "where" are not to be interpreted spatially. Eternality is the "fact" of the being of meaning or a reference to meaning being. Consider the "fact" that George Washington crossed the Delaware at Valley Forge. Now unlike the math that did happen in time but the "fact" that it happened is no longer temporal. The past is no longer happening. The past is now eternal and nothing can therefore change it. ..................... >From Pat....Consciousness thread... As I said, the "fact" that we exist in a continuum implies that the system is teleological. Thus the need for our 'whys' to be answered. I fear, though, that most of the answers will elude us while we're incarnate. Yes, you too Orn........ Yes too to the "fact" that one must adapt to an environment…knowing who they are with. But Wait! We also have unfortunate facts........ Fran.........The ends justify the means thread......... The unfortunate "fact" is that, despite the question of legitimacy regarding Bush's first term Care to rephrase anyone? OK so are we just tossing about the word "fact", should we remove it from our language being that it may not even exist? Fact is, oops did I say fact?, if we cannot conclude that fact exists then we are in a quandary, it's tautological. Fact is fact is not fact is fact. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
