Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-20 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/20/2012 4:49 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: "Necessary truths are the only kind that can be known, they are conditional to context." How is this weird? I think that the process philosophy seems very strange and distorted to you. Why should a contingent truth be not knowable? That seems even mo

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Dec 2012, at 13:50, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/19/2012 5:44 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Dec 2012, at 17:50, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/17/2012 11:31 AM, Roger Clough wrote: I may have to disagree with you, possibly because no one arithmetic statement is the whole truth. And co

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Dec 2012, at 19:18, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Dear Roger and Stephen, Cowboy epistemology on truth are underestimated. Much simpler than all this heavy stuff. From a fellow guitar cowboy that many will know: When the sun came up this morning I took the time to watch it rise. As

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/19/2012 5:44 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Dec 2012, at 17:50, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/17/2012 11:31 AM, Roger Clough wrote: I may have to disagree with you, possibly because no one arithmetic statement is the whole truth. And comp needs a whole set of equations, no one of which i

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Dec 2012, at 17:50, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/17/2012 11:31 AM, Roger Clough wrote: I may have to disagree with you, possibly because no one arithmetic statement is the whole truth. And comp needs a whole set of equations, no one of which is the whole truth. But I think that EVERYTHIN

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
ruth. OK. Bruno [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/17/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-17, 09:16:03 Subject: Re: What is truth ? Ta

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2012-12-18 Thread Roger Clough
ially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-17, 14:41:11 Subject: Re: What is truth ? Take your pick. On 12/17/2012 1:45 PM, Roger Clough wrote: > Good point about necessary and known ,

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2012-12-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/17/2012 1:45 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Good point about necessary and known , but if you follow donaldson, context should be torn out of the heart of any true proposition. Context-sensitive is almost a definition of contingency. Hi Roger, Please post a link to this Donaldson fellow. ;-)

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/17/2012 1:18 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Dear Roger and Stephen, Cowboy epistemology on truth are underestimated. Much simpler than all this heavy stuff. From a fellow guitar cowboy that many will know: When the sun came up this morning I took the time to watch it rise. As its b

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2012-12-17 Thread Roger Clough
time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-17, 11:50:05 Subject: Re: What is truth ? Take your pick. On 12/17/2012 11:31 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > I may have to disagree with you, possibly

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-17 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Dear Roger and Stephen, Cowboy epistemology on truth are underestimated. Much simpler than all this heavy stuff. >From a fellow guitar cowboy that many will know: When the sun came up this morning I took the time to watch it rise. As its beauty struck the darkness from the skies. I thought how s

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/17/2012 11:31 AM, Roger Clough wrote: I may have to disagree with you, possibly because no one arithmetic statement is the whole truth. And comp needs a whole set of equations, no one of which is the whole truth. But I think that EVERYTHING comes from the One, even untruth. Necessary truth

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2012-12-17 Thread Roger Clough
t Guitar Cowboy Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-17, 10:40:52 Subject: Re: What is truth ? Take your pick. Hi guys, On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/17/2012 9:04 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King ? There are many definitions of truth (see

Re: Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-17 Thread Roger Clough
, 09:16:03 Subject: Re: What is truth ? Take your pick. On 12/17/2012 9:04 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King There are many definitions of truth (see below): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth I like Whitehead's, which describes contemporary politics: Whitehead Alfred North White

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/17/2012 10:40 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Whitehead is a devil then because then the half-truth rule can be no exception to his whole truth rule. It is therefore a one quarter truth. No! Wait! It is a 1/8th truth. Sh*t! It just transformed into a 1/16th truth... Cowboy does this fo

Re: What is truth ? Take your pick.

2012-12-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/17/2012 9:04 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King There are many definitions of truth (see below): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth I like Whitehead's, which describes contemporary politics: Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead