To whom it may concern, This is what I refer to as "there's a hole in my metaphysics". Every metaphysics has one - a starting point, something at least ineffable at it's boundary / foundation / core.
"Assumption" is a loaded pejorative word in rhetorical exchanges, and Platt is good at those ;-) But for those discussing the recent edition of in our time - interesting to note that even Newton's famous "laws" are strictly axioms stated without evidence or proof of any kind. Galilleo the builder without foundations, etc. Kepler too. A lot of this is quoted behind Nick Maxwell's drive to get even science to recognise that its foundations are much more flimsy than its empricist, objectivist obsession would suggest. Ian On 4/8/08, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Platt] > Are you saying all statements are analogies? If so, how? > > [Arlo] > Read ZMM and LILA. > > [Platt] > So a new assumption changes the form of knowledge which then becomes true > knowledge? Right? > > [Arlo] > Why the word "true"? Why not "accepted"? Yes, if all our knowledge is based on > assumptions, then a change in our assumptions will alter the forms of our > knowledge. > > "Knowledge" is saying the same thing as "intellectual patterns". "Every > intellectual pattern rests on assumptions". > > "Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived". (LILA) > > "Of course it's an analogy. Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians > don't know that. That's why the Chairman missed that statement of Socrates. > Phædrus has caught it and remembered it, because if Socrates hadn't stated it > he wouldn't have been telling the "Truth."" (ZMM) > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------- > >This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > >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/ > > > > > > > > > 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/ 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/
