[MD] Truth and the Linguistic Turn

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:


> [Krimel]
> Exactly, this odd notion of a fixed, absolute, perfect point of view is the
> dream the drives folks like Ham. You seem to be in accord that philosophers
> are on board rationally with what the sciences have demonstrated
> empirically. There is no fixed absolute reference point. There is no
> Absolute Truth beyond the conception of Absolute Truth. We can imagine such
> a thing. We can give it a "tip of the hat or a wag of the finger" But we
> have no way of being certain that what we tip and wag at, is what we think
> it is. 

I presume you invoke an Absolute Truth in asserting "There is no Absolute Truth."
Of course, if true the statement is self-contradictory. If not, it is a relative
truth which may or may not be true, depending on your point of view (or your
culture if you are a postmodernist). Either way, the statement is doubtful.

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