At Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:44:53 -0700, you wrote:
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>At 11:05 PM 2/9/99 +0000, Craig Dolan-Betney wrote:
>>Would it not be better to say that truth is a(n imaginary) perfect
>>representation
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>What would make a representation perfect?
To be an exact duplicate of the presentation. Such a similacrum belongs in the realm of abstract ideality, not concrete reality, where approximation is perfusive. It would also be perfectly useless as a navigational aid to the territory; one might as well explore the territory as decipher the map (since they'd be equivalent).
>David McFadzean david@lucifer.com
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher