[lbo-talk] in which I'm accused of repressing the reptilian brain

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed May 14 09:27:02 PDT 2008


I think it predates the 17th century. The "multiple truths" thing was a concern of scholasticism and the medieval Arab thinkers, and the ancient Christians and Jews, reconciling philosophy and scripture.


>
> Joanna:
> why it was that in the seventeenth century, people
> started talking
> about there being one truth for science and another
> for art, a
> subsidiary assertion being that normal language was
> degraded, but that
> the language of science (mathematics) was
> pure....and that therefore,
> science was by definition "true."
>



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