[MD] subject / object logic

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

>      [Platt]
> > Where I come from, "always" is an absolute. And to
> > say "truth is not an 
> > absolute" is an absolute and thus
> > self-contradictory.
> 
> 
>      No absolute truth is the same as saying No
> absolute eggs. 

Not the same. To say there is no absolute truth is to assert a truth. Thus,
contradictory. 


> With no absolute '-----' anything can
> be in the blank, and make complete sense, due to one
> is saying there are no absolutes, which means -
> nothing, zero when it comes to what an absolute is. 
> This is what "truth is not an absolute" means.  It is
> a big fat zero.  Now, do you know what zero is?

Sorry. I don't follow you. Are you saying zero means nothing? Pirsig disagrees:

"Zero" and "space" are complex relationships of "somethingness."  (Lila, 5)

Platt
 

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