Krimel said to dmb:What gives your view a privileged claim to Truth or even truth?
dmb says:As I see it, our debates have never been about whether the MOQ is thee Truth or not and I've never suggested that my view is privileged. In fact, the idea that any view is privileged is antithetical to pragmatism, perspectivalism, radical empiricism, the perennial philosophy, the MOQ and everything else I've been defending. But there is such a thing as misunderstanding and incomprehension and that is what our debates are about. I don't think you've rejected or disputed the MOQ. I just think you don't understand it. By logical necessity, you can't dispute or reject something until you know what it is and so the intellectual value of the MOQ is something you're not yet ready to discuss. In fact, this particular objection of your is typical. It's not a real objection because it's opposed to a view I never expressed and do not hold. The question poses no challenge to anything I've said or anything I believe. It only displays a misunderstanding of my view. It's funny that you think I run away from your tough questions and vigorous challenges. It's quite the opposite. I just get frustrated by the failure to communicate. Like the health benefits of church-going thing. WTF? The issue going on there is the Pragmatic theory of truth. If you were familiar with that, that section of the Atlantic article would make a lot more sense to you. Basically, bad readers of James took him to be saying that truth is whatever works for you, whatever makes you feel better. This is nonsense. The pragmatic theory of truth says that a belief is true if it works IN GUIDING FUTURE EXPERIENCE. As one would expect from a radical empiricist, experience is the test of truth. Anyway, I'm headed out for Utah for some camping. Later. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009 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/
