[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[X Acto]

hey dave,

dmb: 
But anyway, around here
> truth is the pragmatic truth. It's provisional,
> self-correcting and grounded out in actual experience. Truth
> and falsity are what happens to an idea in the course of
> experience. It's contextual and perspectival but reality,
> which is to say experience, has a way of keeping us honest
> and that's what prevents the MOQ from being a relativism. 

gav: 
isn't this splitting hairs? i mean if truth is contextual and perspectival isn't that a form of relativism? 'truth is relative'... another way of saying that might be 'context-dependent'.

Ron:
after reading up on it, it seems the term "relativism" is mostly used 
as a perjorative in the respect that it is a term for pragmatism used
by those positivists that do not understand the point that pragmatism
is trying to make about empiricism. It carries such a spector of meaning
meaninglessness or truthlessness when in fact it's more a statement
about the plurality of truth and how humans relate to those truths.