Truth is a White Lie

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Reconstructo
 
Reply Fri 5 Mar, 2010 02:12 am
@Humanity,
Humanity;136414 wrote:

Whether they are well justified or not, such assertions are ultimately conditioned and inter-dependent with the subject.
They cannot be absolutely independent truths waiting for humans to reach them at some time in the near or distant future.


Yes...Kant was a genius. And Hegel took it farther. Wittgenstein grinded it down to a diamond....

The Germans are my favorite. (Sure, they didn't get their first....but they connected the modern with the ancient, for transcendental space is euclidean geometry...)
 
Humanity
 
Reply Fri 5 Mar, 2010 02:35 am
@Reconstructo,
Reconstructo;136409 wrote:
I should add that I view logic itself as the supreme white lie. So white & seductive that we cannot think outside of it...
Yes, especially when dealing with a more refined level of reality.

Here is a comment by Nietzsche

Nietzsche in wiki wrote:

Thus there is the idea that logical inference has a use as a tool for human survival, but that its existence does not support the existence of truth, nor does it have a reality beyond the instrumental: Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world.
(Nietzsche, 1878, Human, All Too Human)


But nevertheless, logic is very necessary and useful within a certain range of reality.
It is relevant as long as we use within its limits.
 
Subjectivity9
 
Reply Fri 5 Mar, 2010 08:09 am
@Reconstructo,
Humanity,

Wouldn't you agree that even subjective truths are not ultimate, until some point where they are so true or irrefutable that they are not subject to change with more information?

I can easily look back and see many of my truths, that I have outgrown, or simply disguarded in one way or another.

How about you?

S9
 
Reconstructo
 
Reply Fri 5 Mar, 2010 05:54 pm
@Humanity,
Humanity;136421 wrote:
Yes, especially when dealing with a more refined level of reality.

Here is a comment by Nietzsche



But nevertheless, logic is very necessary and useful within a certain range of reality.
It is relevant as long as we use within its limits.


Yes, indeed. I also agree with another great German, Wittgenstein, that logic is trancendental. Our mind is structured to find coherence beautiful & persuasive. So on the basic formal level, we all agree that A = A, and that -A does not equal A, assuming these two basic symbols are understood. And Wittgenstein, as well as Hegel, reduces all logic to these fundamental operations. The core of the mind's sense of truth. Identity and contradiction. I find them "logical" on this. But perhaps I have no choice....

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Subjectivity9;136454 wrote:

Wouldn't you agree that even subjective truths are not ultimate, until some point where they are so true or irrefutable that they are not subject to change with more information?
S9


Only at the core perhaps.....but the core is quite persuasive..A = A
 
HexHammer
 
Reply Mon 8 Mar, 2010 09:58 am
@Reconstructo,
Reconstructo;136666 wrote:
Only at the core perhaps.....but the core is quite persuasive..A = A
Of what great things have you solved with your logic, in the real world? Seems your logic only extends to the mere theory of logic.
 
Reconstructo
 
Reply Mon 8 Mar, 2010 02:30 pm
@HexHammer,
HexHammer;137523 wrote:
Of what great things have you solved with your logic, in the real world? Seems your logic only extends to the mere theory of logic.


That's just it, Hex Hammer. Logic is only simple and pure on the formal level. Beyond that and it all gets slippery. On the other hand, to see the root of our entire mathematical structure is something exciting.

It also seems that ethics, aesthetics, logic, and math, meet up at the root of our minds. But that's a personal opinion.

As far as the real world goes, math is a mutation of logic, and we see quite clearly what math has done for us.
 
HexHammer
 
Reply Mon 8 Mar, 2010 05:46 pm
@Reconstructo,
Reconstructo;137628 wrote:
That's just it, Hex Hammer. Logic is only simple and pure on the formal level. Beyond that and it all gets slippery. On the other hand, to see the root of our entire mathematical structure is something exciting.

It also seems that ethics, aesthetics, logic, and math, meet up at the root of our minds. But that's a personal opinion.

As far as the real world goes, math is a mutation of logic, and we see quite clearly what math has done for us.
Ah, yes ..thought so. You are only a pocket philosoph, never been able to use your theories to anything.

Empty rethoric.
 
Reconstructo
 
Reply Mon 8 Mar, 2010 09:00 pm
@HexHammer,
HexHammer;137702 wrote:
Ah, yes ..thought so. You are only a pocket philosoph, never been able to use your theories to anything.

Empty rethoric.



You got me! I'm just a poet.......

& what are you? An under-educated pseudo-Napoleon who can't even successfully spell his clumsy insults.

Perhaps you find the art museums superfluous as well. Utility is indeed the proper god for a tool.
 
HexHammer
 
Reply Mon 8 Mar, 2010 10:07 pm
@Reconstructo,
Reconstructo;137761 wrote:
You got me! I'm just a poet.......

& what are you? An under-educated pseudo-Napoleon who can't even successfully spell his clumsy insults.

Perhaps you find the art museums superfluous as well. Utility is indeed the proper god for a tool.
I'm a brutal efficient problem solver, I'v worked in a big newspaper in the quality departmen, solved problems for people who on paper was thousand fold better than me, higher education and more experience. Yes, I'm a terrible speller, but that has nothing to do with solveing problems, nor looking at things in a realistic and pragmatic way.

If you let people to navel gazing behaviour, things will come to a stall, if you have guts enough to kick people in the ass, you can achive great things, just that I don't have great appeal when doing it.

If you changed your ways, you could achive great things, you do have a great knowledge base and are very active, just that you need directions.
 
pondfish
 
Reply Thu 11 Mar, 2010 04:40 pm
@Reconstructo,
Actually it is like this.

Truth is lie that work
Lies are lie that do not work.

Truth do not exists , so there is no need for it. Truth is a lie actually. So lie is everything in and out.
 
PappasNick
 
Reply Mon 15 Mar, 2010 02:11 pm
@HexHammer,
HexHammer;137791 wrote:
I'm a brutal efficient problem solver, I'v worked in a big newspaper in the quality departmen, solved problems for people who on paper was thousand fold better than me, higher education and more experience. Yes, I'm a terrible speller, but that has nothing to do with solveing problems, nor looking at things in a realistic and pragmatic way.

If you let people to navel gazing behaviour, things will come to a stall, if you have guts enough to kick people in the ass, you can achive great things, just that I don't have great appeal when doing it.

If you changed your ways, you could achive great things, you do have a great knowledge base and are very active, just that you need directions.


Reconstructo,

I'm sorry to see you and HexHammer have bumped heads. I guess that is inevitable in a forum like this.

I've missed your contributions over the past several days. I hope you don't stay away long. I find your comments valuable, as I'm sure many others do. And it's not as lively here without you.

Sorry if you're just on holiday and I'm harassing you.

- Nick
 
north
 
Reply Mon 15 Mar, 2010 02:43 pm
@PappasNick,
yet I see truths and billions of them

so are we talking strickly politics or truths in general ?
 
Subjectivity9
 
Reply Mon 15 Mar, 2010 06:12 pm
@Reconstructo,
Hexhamer,

Being rude isn’t the same thing as being a problem solver. Who are you trying to kid?

Anyone who wants to get things done in any big way, usually has to unite people, and inspire them to work well together.

Hit me with a stick and try to make me cower under your rough handling, and not only wouldn’t I work well with you, but I would look for a way to F—k you up. : ^ (

I would also most likely succeed because of the energy you produced behind my disliking you. Isn’t that counterproductive on your part to bring this turn of events about? That is not a productive way for you to accomplish anything worthwhile.

S9
 
pondfish
 
Reply Mon 15 Mar, 2010 06:25 pm
@Reconstructo,
Truth is a white lie. Mask the the lie for the sake of good.
Lie is black lie. Open for every one to see.
 
HexHammer
 
Reply Mon 15 Mar, 2010 07:34 pm
@Subjectivity9,
Subjectivity9;140063 wrote:
Hexhamer,

Being rude isn't the same thing as being a problem solver. Who are you trying to kid?

Anyone who wants to get things done in any big way, usually has to unite people, and inspire them to work well together.

Hit me with a stick and try to make me cower under your rough handling, and not only wouldn't I work well with you, but I would look for a way to F-k you up. : ^ (

I would also most likely succeed because of the energy you produced behind my disliking you. Isn't that counterproductive on your part to bring this turn of events about? That is not a productive way for you to accomplish anything worthwhile.
Now you are being rude and do nothing but flame!

Excatly what do you know of what I have done? You speak with such certainty ..nothing?

My analyze of Reconstructo was excatly right.
 
pondfish
 
Reply Mon 15 Mar, 2010 07:53 pm
@Reconstructo,
Why do monkeys advise other monkeys?. Hex hammer , Look at the mirror.

It is always about you , no one else.

Why do humans have a ego? He is being slave to his belief and doing things unknowingly
 
wayne
 
Reply Tue 16 Mar, 2010 04:02 am
@Reconstructo,
The truth hurts. If I tell lies to avoid pain am I really increasing my enjoyment of creation, or am I just lying to myself, if I tell a lie to avoid someone elses pain am I increasing thier enjoyment of creation, or am I just helping them lie to themselves,have we told so many lies that we have forgotten the truth?
 
Subjectivity9
 
Reply Tue 16 Mar, 2010 04:56 am
@Reconstructo,
Hex,

Says you, Mr. Bully.

S9
 
HexHammer
 
Reply Tue 16 Mar, 2010 05:01 am
@Subjectivity9,
Subjectivity9;140218 wrote:
Hex,

Says you, Mr. Bully.

S9
I'll just report you for flaming and harassment.
 
Subjectivity9
 
Reply Tue 16 Mar, 2010 05:05 am
@Reconstructo,
Wayne,

Since truth is exceedingly subjective at best, how exactly are we supposed to find the one truth that fits all?

If there is an ‘Ultimate Truth,’ it certainly resides outside of the mind of man which is in constant flux, because even if we chanced upon it we would of necessity move on and leave it behind. : ^ (

S9
 
 

 
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