[MD] Truth and the Linguistic Turn

Platt Holden pholden at davtv.com
Tue May 13 14:05:07 PDT 2008


> [Platt]
> Agree. Truth is a subset of Quality as is Goodness and Beauty. All are
> known instinctively prior to conception or intellectualization and thus
> fundamentally beyond definition. In other words, we often know something is
> true -- like we know something has value -- without being able to prove it
> or even tell why. Art is like that, delightful beyond words
> 
> [Krimel]
> Are you really saying the True, the Good and the Beautiful are indefinable?

Yes.

> Aren't none of them Absolute?

Aren't any of them absolute? They are all absolutes and indefinable, like 
Quality.  But, we try to do it anyway . . . "like a mathematical definition 
of randomness. The more you try to say what randomness is the less random 
it becomes. Or 'zero,' or 'space' for that matter." (Lila, 5)   



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