virus: KMO quotes Plato

Tadeusz Niwinski (niwinska@direct.ca)
Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:14:25 -0700


On Oct 23 Jason wrote:
>[...] while we may never be able to fully describe it, there is some
>underlying objective reality that all of the portraits are
>approximating. This is qualitatively different from the assertion
>that there is no objective reality.
>
>To say that there is no objective reality means that we have no
>basis on which to judge the accuracy a desciption.

All science is based on the assumption that there *is* objective reality.
I also call it Absolute Truth.

>(I suspect there is another argument/philosophical movement that
>argues against the existance of objective reality that isn't
>being represented here. Is this true?)

The other argument/philosophical movement obviously comes up in these
discussions. It's worth defining it. Aside from religious beliefs, I can
see three different atheistic approaches based on beliefs and behaviour.

(1) Level-T atheists who believe and behave as they believe that there is
objective reality and that the world is rational, predictable, intelligible.

(2) Level-U atheists who believe and behave as they believe that there is no
objective reality and that the world is contradictory, bewildering,
unknowable.

(3) Level-H atheists who (deep-inside) believe as Level-T and behave as
Level-U. I call them Memetical Hypocrites. This kind of behaviour is very
USEFUL from "the number of toys gathered in life" point of view.

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Tad Niwinski from TeTa where people grow
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There is no Absolute Truth, although we are getting closer and closer to IT.