Hi David M, > > [Platt] > > Can you give some examples of specific values that are dressed up as > > "objective knowledge?" I'm having a hard time imagining them.
> DM: Sort of thing I have in mind are claims about what is human nature, or > what is natural or natural behaviour. Usually this stuff is more value > loaded than describing any necessity. [Platt] OK. Psychology and related soft sciences are more susceptible to be influenced by the investigators' biases than the hard sciences. [Platt] >> Truth as > > defined by Rorty and others in the postmodernist camp is considered to be > > relative to culture or a power play, except, incoherently, the truth of > > their own privileged stance. Not many are buying their self-falsifying > > claims these days except a few humanities academics. Truth may have > > "objective value" in that truth as a general concept cannot be denied > > without asserting a truth, just as values cannot be denied without > > asserting a value. But, I await your comments. [DM] > Truth I find of little value as a concept. What does something being true > mean? Is the hat in the box? Don't know unless I look. Yes it is, yes it is > true, only means that it is true due to experience after the experience. > Sure you can say it was true before we looked but knowing the truth is just > having an experience or imagining something could be experienced. So it has > to be someone's experience. Is this relativism? [Platt] I guess you are referring to empirical truth, and believe it is true that empirical truth is the only legitimate truth. I think this illustrates my point that truth as a concept is impossible to deny and thus my be "objective" in some sense -- like beauty and goodness. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
