[DmB said to Marsha] Ironically, I think your position takes a pretty big hit from your own textual evidence. Take a few moments to reflect and compare what you say to Peter Senge's assertion. You say you have nothing to say about truth, that you're not interested, and more or less dismiss it all. By contrast Senge writes: "We “are” our mental models…The discipline of working with mental models starts with turning the mirror inward; learning to unearth our internal pictures of the world, to bring them to the surface and hold them rigorously to scrutiny."
If we "are" static patterns and the only one who doesn't "pollute" the world with metaphysical understandings is yet unborn, then having a world view is avoidably part of what we "are". The only question is its quality. Since everyone must have a world view, must have a truth of some kind, we can just passively inherit a hodge-podge of what ever was handed to us or we can engage in reflection, self-examination, rigorous thought and otherwise take an active role in scrutinizing that world view. Some people will even tell you that the unexamined life is not worth living. And yet you say you just don't care about truth. That's a deeply nihilistic position and it's based on sloppy "thinking". I think you took a lousy road to a very nasty place. That's just how it works. Faulty thinking lead to bad conclusions. [Ron sez] Well, it is rather contradictory also, truth is the goal of any inquirey, we investigate matters in order to "discover" their truth, with the point of calling it true being simply it's being "good" to believe. Not only does the word commend but serves as a moral appraisal in personal virtue and an ethical accountability of actions. It is one thing to note the untenable position of knowledge of any absolute Truth but quite another to throw in your hat with the post modern deconstruction of truth in favor of the practical issues of living. The scary-Hairy problem is the disillusionment with the concept of truth is more widespread and more deeply rooted than pessimism about devising a satisfactory theory.(Rorty comes to mind) .. 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/md/archives.html 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/md/archives.html
