gnarlylove
Senior Member
I also wanted to challenge your notion of Absolute Truth is Real.
Truth is a function of language. And language is a product of humanity. That isn't to say truth isn't useful but it can also lead to harm when you fight for Truth (capital T Truth) over someone's own life or right to pursue liberty. Then you value a made up thing over a concrete thing. You are committing the fallacy of reification.
Richard Rorty offers a succinct defense of this claim on pg 5:
Truth cannot be out there—cannot exist independently of the human mind—because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
I don't expect you to agree, but given how I've been mentally damaged by thinking the Truth is out there is worth sharing. It's a tool used to get you to do things in the name of Truth. I always say capital T Truth is just "recommendation on steroids." Once you move beyond Truth you can start realizing we are animals in need. That all we have is each other and there is no Truth going to rescue us. We die and that's it. So either help others attain liberation or pursue your selfish interest. Your choice.
Truth is a function of language. And language is a product of humanity. That isn't to say truth isn't useful but it can also lead to harm when you fight for Truth (capital T Truth) over someone's own life or right to pursue liberty. Then you value a made up thing over a concrete thing. You are committing the fallacy of reification.
Richard Rorty offers a succinct defense of this claim on pg 5:
Truth cannot be out there—cannot exist independently of the human mind—because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
I don't expect you to agree, but given how I've been mentally damaged by thinking the Truth is out there is worth sharing. It's a tool used to get you to do things in the name of Truth. I always say capital T Truth is just "recommendation on steroids." Once you move beyond Truth you can start realizing we are animals in need. That all we have is each other and there is no Truth going to rescue us. We die and that's it. So either help others attain liberation or pursue your selfish interest. Your choice.
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