MD Pirsig's Science

From: enoonan (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 23 2002 - 00:50:15 GMT


Hello everybody,

I think that the problem of determining whether a truth is absolute or not is
whether you choose to trust your senses.
Why I think that the senses I do have give me access to truth it is only
provisional because I think it is a possiblity that we can develop another
sense which will erase what another sense "wrote in pencil". Also being
multisensory what if different senses give different information thus
different truths?
The hubris of claiming absolute truths (yes Platt that includes saying there
are no absolutes which for the umpteenth time nobody said) reminds me of when
Einstein said "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of
truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

P.S. If dynamic quality is a part of reality why is it so hard to believe
that it is a possiblity that reality can CHANGE.

Erin

Erin

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