At 16:49 12/05/99 -0500, Joe wrote:
>> What about accept that Truth is an illusion
Must be your favourite joke, Joe:
>At 15:46 09/05/99 -0700, Joe wrote:
Trouble is, I am deadly convinced that there's no such thing as truth, even
though the idea shoots itself point blank in the foot. I guess the
statement "nothing is actually true" is only a hair's breadth from the
standard logic paradox "This statement is false", which if it's false is
true and which if it's true is false.
>>
>Do you consider that statement true? ;~)
>
Me: >>> What's the level of agreement on "there is no such thing as
>>>absolute, knowable, non-cultural-group-specific truth"? I
>>>think we should start our maxims nihilist & self-
>>>contradictory, then work our way up.
>>
Joe: >>Is that an absolute, knowable, non-cultural-group-specific truth?
>
Me: >Hence the "self-contradictory" bit. One of my favourite neural
>tickles, that- always subscribing to worldviews that know for
>certain that you can't know anything for certain: