On Sun, 21 May 2000 16:01:55 EDT, foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 05/21/2000 2:28:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> ransomjsw@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> <<
> Thus, from the fact that the statement 'there is no truth' contradicts
the
> premise it puts forth, it by no means follows that the statement in
question
> has no truth value.
> >>
>
> I don't think the example of "so near, yet so far away" has much in
common
> with
> the contradiction implicit in "there is no truth." the irony implicit in
the
> former (that one can be close to one's goal and still have no chance of
> attaining it) is not present in the latter.
I disagree. There is plenty of irony in the claim that 'it is true that
there is no truth.' Just as 'near' and 'far' are being used in different
registers to help signal a complex psychic state, so too the two uses of
'truth' work on different levels in 'it is true there is no truth.'
-- John
personally, I think that truth
> exists -- after all, I'm a poet -- in much the same way that the Real
exists,
> and while it may be true that we can generally know either within the
context
> of a particular system of belief, belief systems are not the only way in
> which one makes contact with truth, or the real.
>
> joe brennan....
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