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

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No doubt. When I was looking into this, some of the most fertile ground I found were theological discussions. In fact, what leads to the "scientific revolution" starts with mystical reforms/movements of the fourteenth century. But my issue specifically was about the connection between truth and language forms.
Joanna

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From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> 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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