[MD] Emptiness & Quantum Mechancics

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John said to dmb:
... since you and I agree on disparaging Relativism, I'm puzzled how you can 
disagree with me that Truth is an Absolute Ideal. Even if you make Experience 
your Absolute, it is still, an Absolute.



dmb says:

The pragmatic theory of truth is neither. It's a false dilemma. James and Pirsig 
agree that there is no such thing as the Truth. There are specific truths in the 
plural and they are provisional. They agree on the notion that "truth is a 
species of the good" so it is also NOT absolute in the sense that it is one 
particular kind of Quality, specifically intellectual static quality. Also, the 
pragmatist says that ideas are made true in experience. In a very real sense, 
this kind of truth is not ideal. It's practical and empirical. A true idea is 
one that leads you successfully in experience and false ideas don't. In that 
sense, truth is agreement with experience. But this applies to the realm 
intellectual realm as well as the workshop or science lab. "True ideas lead us 
into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well," James says, and they "lead 
to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse. They lead away from 
excentricity and isolation, from foiled and barren thin
king". In other words, true ideas have quality. They work well AS ideas. 

Ron:
In short, true ideas are a drive towards betterness. True ideas are those that 
are "better".
therefore "truth" may be understood as a specific type of quality, intellectual 
quality.
Intellectual "betterness". A species of the good.

This activity is most pleasant and best, it is in this better state that the 
divine has it's being,
"Life at it's eternal best".






                        
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