Re: MD What makes an idea dangerous?

From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 16 2003 - 01:09:38 GMT

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    Scott,

    Scott said:
    Thus you miss the point when you give examples that are true by correspondence. Truth by correspondence only works when the example consists of sense-perceptible particulars, as is the case in your examples. But as soon as generalities are involved, truth by correspondence doesn't work.

    Matt:
    I want to thank Scott for this. Many times I get overzealous in my eschewment of "correspondence". Scott's right when he says "truth by correspondence only works when the example consists of sense-perceptible particulars". What the pragmatist balks at is analogizing all truth to sense perception. We don't know what it means for Truth to be an object the same as a tiger; we think the analogy very bad.

    Matt

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