Hey Horse,
HORSE
Something can be absolutely true by definition (a bachelor is an unmarried
man) or by logical derivation (X=X) but that's about as far as we can go
with absolutes.
RICK
Agreed. 'Absoluteness' is merely a smokescreen for tautology.
HORSE
Our knowledge of the world is incomplete and thus provisional so to make a
statement about it's nature in absolute terms is non-sensical.
RICK
Agreed. All we've got is handful of sand off of an endless landscape (ZMM
p69). What could possibly less 'absolute' than that?
Go to the head of the class.
rick
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