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

[Chris Doss]

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."
>