Re: Can Postmodernism Survive?

on 5/20/00 1:34 PM, JBCM2@xxxxxxx at JBCM2@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In a message dated 05/20/2000 2:04:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> ahaig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> << The point is not that
> nothing is observable, but that our interpretations are constructed based on
> our existing knowledge/understanding, which is always arbitrary. >>
>
> so then the point is that it's not a question of whether or not there is
> truth, but that we can only approach truth with the bias of our limitations
> of knowing, that we can only approach the truth (I want to say the Real)
> asymptotically? further, that there is truth that we can observe, which is
> different from truth that we interpret?
>
> jb...

No - there is no one answer, they're all cultural constructs. Always.
Inevitably. The point is that there is not Truth of a given subject. In a
given system there might be an "accurate" description of an occurrence, but
that system is always itself contingent.

Truth doesn't place limits on knowing, knowing places limits on truth.

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Asher Haig ahaig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greenhill Debate Dartmouth 2004



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