Force & Truth (was Re: litcritter bashing...)

David Jennings [MSAI] djenning at ai.uga.edu
Wed Nov 3 11:29:46 PST 1999


On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:


>>On Wednesday, November 3, 1999 at 10:24:08 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>> >All you postie-bashers out there, who wrote this: "...in the sense a
>> >mathematical truth holds good even when we are asleep and even if it
>> >does not exist in nature"?
>>
[snip]
>
>Nope, not Russell. For me, the point of interest in the quote is the
>notion of "truth" existing apart from our thoughts of "truth," in the
>light of claims about the impossibility of truth claims.
>

I thought the interesting part was "even if it does not exist in nature."

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