On 12/17/2012 9:04 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
There are many definitions of truth (see below):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth
I like Whitehead's, which describes contemporary politics:
Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead>, a British
mathematician who became an American philosopher^[/citation needed
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>/] , said:
/"*There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying
to treat them as whole truths that play the devil".*/
The logical progression or connection of this line of thought is to
conclude that truth can lie, since half-truths
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-truth>are deceptive and may lead to
a false conclusion.
Hi Roger,
I am a massively huge fan of A.N. Whitehead. ;-) You might make
sense of my fight with Bruno given this alternative, non-Platonic, way
of thinking of Truth.
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Onward!
Stephen
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