Posted by alexandra_k on November 19, 2004, at 18:45:08
In reply to Re: What is TRUTH? » alexandra_k, posted by Shortelise on November 18, 2004, at 21:11:36
> Yes, it the refuting of everything and everything another says that drives me crazy.
>It's how I am, and it's so easy to refute.
I am sorry. Sometimes analytic philosophy does seem to be a negative enterprise. It is much easier to find fault in what another says than to advance a plausible thesis of ones own. I wasn't trying to show that what you said was wrong, however, just that there are many different sorts of things that we want to regard as 'true' and so to show that your theory applies to certain kinds of truths rather than truth in general.
I am just trying to advance the search for the nature of truth...
But then we cannot come up with better theories unless we recognise the inadequacies in the current ones. Thats not just a comment on what you have said, thats a comment on what EVERYONE in the whole history of philosophy has said.
But then sometimes it is nice to just write what you think / feel without having to worry about annoying gadflies such as myself...
Don't underestimate practical abilities, and even practical rationality (both of which I sorely lack). And don't underestimate your ability to do anything you put your mind to either! I do not have many practical skills - but then that is because I do not work to gain them because it is not high on my list of priorities. Maybe you find this kind of stuff interesting to think about sometimes, but in terms of working to develop skills of analytic thinking, well, you have better things to do with your time.
I read what you have to say with much interest.
No one path is better than the other.
poster:alexandra_k
thread:417479
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20041114/msgs/418039.html