>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."
That too, implying that there's a nature that exists apart from our perceptions of nature.
Doug