>What is Metaphysics? A good summary from Nashville, TN:
>http://www.vanderbilt.edu/~postjf/mcich1int.htm
>
>Glenn said:
>
>I don't buy your argument that I'm slicing and dicing the art that is
>Lila. Lila is first and foremost about a metaphysics. If you think
>creating strawmen, being contradictory, misrepresenting science, and
>leaving things vague or unexplained in Lila is immune to criticism because
>it is an expression of art which paints a sometimes unflattering portrait
>of an imperfect man struggling for the good, then I disagree. This
>kind of thing worked beautifully in ZMM, but it has no place in a
>presentation of a metaphysics. These things only serve to mislead and
>confuse what is intended to be a serious doctrine.
>
>I say(lovingly):
>
>Screw you, Glenn!! Your axioms need to be questioned! What are your axioms?
>
>1. That logical consistency is necessary for truth!
>2. That language is necessary to express Metaphysical Truth!
>
>Bah Humbug! ( I think I must sound like Roger. Where is Roger?)
>
>There are two kinds of logic: deductive an inductive. Of these, deductive is
>what we most often see in what passes for Philosophy these days. Deductive
>logic is always based on axioms.(Axiom?)
>
>Axioms are statements that are accepted without proof. Where were you during
>this part of ZMM? No logical system can be completely consistent! (Godel?)
>If truth must be logically consistent, and no logical system is consistent,
>then there can be no truth. Fuck truth!!!
"Reality bites", eh?
Warming up to pinch-hit, are we?
OK, I'll bite. Does Truth (i.e., Singular Reality) evaporate simply because
our precious systems of logic are impotent to decribe or contain it all in
one fell swoop without being frought with inConsistency, inCompleteness,
unCertainty, and an infuriatingly chronic lack of Closure? ("The Four Highly
Improbable C's" to any sober western researcher, I hope!) I can see it now:
"Grand Unity Theory fails, proves Reality is hoax!" Or, if our MAPS don't
work, REALITY must be at fault! Must we mistake theory for existence itself?"
Of course not. The MAP is not the TERRITORY, i'ts JUST A MAP. (Is there an
echo in here?) Logic is not Truth, it's JUST logic, obediantly doing every-
thing we are smart enough to tell it to do, which USUALLY amounts to showing
us just exactly what we WANT to see. As a TOOL of HUMAN INVENTION, logic
has its many worthy uses, but the moment we forget its inherent limitations
we are led astray. So much for Logic, but what about Truth? I rather suspect
she is unfuckable, and speaking of axioms, I'll leave you with one of Ayn
Rand's worthier bits: "Existence Exists."
Reduce THAT!
Best,
Riff
(dkm)
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