Edwina,
I find it surprising that there is so much falsity in the world.
Think of politics. It is not surprising that some politicians
think it to their advantage to play false with the people they
are supposed to represent. It is surprising that the people
buy their lies as long as they do. No doubt the liar knows
what the logician so easily misses, that people will go on
liking the lie until it damn near kills them, nay, after.
Or think on Cordelia, disowned for her very honesty.
Regards,
Jon
Edwina Taborsky wrote:
You are playing games with us, Jon! You haven't said WHY you consider
that people 'prefer falsity to truth, illusion to reality'.
And I don't agree with your conclusion, for it carries within it an
assumption that truth and reality are unpleasant. Are they?
What about - the fact (truth, reality) that our species has the greatest
capacity of all living organisms to 'imagine' the world. That capacity
for imagination enables man to invent - something that animals, for the
most part, have little capacity to do. Rather than waiting for evolution
to develop wings, man imagines flying and invents the airplane. And
email and....
And in his capacity for invention, man must deal with truth and reality.
Or, the plane won't fly and the computer won't exist or work.
So, aren't we a combination of both? And thus, don't we require both?
Edwina
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Awbrey" <[email protected]>
To: "Peirce List 1" <[email protected]>
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Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Q. Why is there so much falsity in the world?
A. Because people prefer falsity to truth, illusion to reality.
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Being the drift of my reflections on the plays I saw at Stratford this
summer —
King Lear, King John, Man of La Mancha, Alice Through the Looking-Glass,
Crazy for You, Hay Fever.
⁂
The Beaux’ Stratagem • Masks, Madness, & Shakespeare's Sonnets •
Anthony and Cleopatra
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http://web.archive.org/web/20140730150000/http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/mobile/plays.aspx?id=63
http://web.archive.org/web/20140901200001/http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/forum/showcases.aspx?id=20472
⁂
The obligatory report on What I Did This Summer,
but not unrelated to pressing problems of logic.
Cheers,
Jon
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