Platt wrote
>But the main point is that now, in addition to the SOM truth -- the truth of an
>independent universe “out there” that many of us grew up believing was the
>only truth – we now have with the MoQ an intellectually viable challenger. If
>there weren’t many truths before, there are now. And the more we know, the
>more truths we see—scientific truth, mathematical truth, logical truth, “adopt
>or die” truth (Popper), aesthetic truth, revealed truth and of course, MoQ truth.
>
>Yet, (and here’s where I get flummoxed) every attempt to do away with a
>single truth invariable invokes a single truth. Am I too locked into logic? Does
>any one see a way out of the contradiction of asserting it’s true there are
>many truths?
The MOQ doesn't assert that the MOQ is the truth. It just asserts that
it's a good intellectual pattern.
Diana
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