RE: MD No to absolutism

From: Jonathan B. Marder (jonathan.marder@newmail.net)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 16:49:01 GMT

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    Hi Platt,

    PLATT
    Are there any absolute truths in your thought processes, or do you take
    every true statement to be "broadly true" subject to be false in some
    other imagined context? [snip]

    JONATHAN replies
    I'll go further than "broadly true". There are some things that are true
    in every situation I can think of.

    PLATT continues
    I guess our difference revolves around the terms "strong" and
    "absolute."
    IMO, the Holocaust was not merely a strong evil but an absolute evil,
    not broadly true that it happened, but absolutely true. In my
    imagination
    I can think of no extenuating context that would render using absolute
    in
    that case "incorrect." Can you?

    JONATHAN
    No I can't.
    But since I am not omnipotent, I have to admit that someone might think
    of exceptional circumstance I hadn't thought of.

    I believe that brings our discussion to a close, but then again, I could
    be wrong;-)

    Jonathan

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