[MD] the news, or lack of it...

[Platt Holden]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:28 AM, <squonkmuse at talktalk.net> wrote:

>
> Truth can be verified without appeal to social patterns; building to form a
> consensus of pragmatic values until the consensus is modified by further
> observation. It may therefore be said that truth evolves toward a state of
> higher value.
>
>
Consensus is a social pattern. Let us hope that truth is not what the
majority says it is. Let us also hope truth is not pragmatic. It too is a
social pattern. As Pirsig observed:

"James would probably have been horrified to find that Nazis could use his
pragmatism just as freely as anyone else, but Phaedrus didn't see anything
that would prevent it." (Lila, 29)

Platt