Sunday, January 31, 2010
Are things constructed not true? Re: Burke
I believe, that truth is strictly construction. How could truth be anything other than construction, when the discussion of "Truth" is conducted by flawed, unknowing beings? Humans are taught what is true and what is false from a young age and most do not have interest in delving into whether or not what they were taught is actually correct. Is it possible that everything we know about physics is wrong? Or, everything we have been fed on subjects like history or politics is lies developed by the craftiest of thinkers? Who knows? However, what I do believe, strongly, is that human beings possess the ability to construct truth. Truth does not construct reality, rather humans do so by creating their own "truths." So I would submit that all things constructed are true, at least at one point in time. However, to further question I ask the following: How can one evaluate reality without filtering it through their own version of reality?
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The sense of Truth
Admittedly, I am no authority on the difference between reality and how human beings perceive reality. In fact, I am confronted with a major struggle to even begin discerning between the two. My version of reality is what I hold, with sufficient bolstering evidence, to be "the" case. However, that being said, I have very little comprehension of extrinsic universes or realities to my own. After all, how could one think of something not in their mind, never mind make sense of it. Epistemology is referred to as a map, but this map only extends as far as the corners of OUR minds. Granted, to limit oneself to a singular possibility would inevitably turn out to be quite boring, but a bore we are doomed to endure. The question of what else exists beyond us, to me, is impossible to answer, unless we have a literal out of body experience, on the other hand we would need more than an out of body experience, we would need to have an out of mind experience which would lead to the experience not being intrinsic to the person in the first place.
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