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Originally Posted by pilgrimsHost Belief=fact. truth=myth. |
That is nice.
You could say that I do believe that there is some truth to it.
Truth and belief are narrative issues, both of them, all about the telling of stories.
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Originally Posted by freaky_monkey  However, 1 + 1 =2. Is this a truth and if so can it or will it ever change? |
1 + 1 =2 is obviously not a truth.
How come they fall for such a silly nonsense?
The scientific equation, the notion of identical equity is one of the most absurd yet one of the most persistent fallacies. In so far as it is possible to experience the separation of entities as if to suppose to propose a set of two or more, the entitites may therefore be similar enough to compare for ordinary purposes, but it is equally axiomatic that the entities are are therefore separate and different, not absolutely indentical.
It is contrary to ordinary experience to propose even that anything stays the same as compared to itself for two conseqential seconds in a row, let alone as compared to anything apart. That is simply not how life is.
Stuff moves, Everything changes, all the time. Come and go. Live and die, divided in order to multiply.
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Originally Posted by freaky_monkey Is mathematics the ultimate truth? |
To sophisticatedly investigate an opinion of the inadequacy of abstract conception one might also refer to Albert Einstern's chum,
Kurt Gödel, whose wonderful irony was to invoke mathematics as if to
mock the very flesh of itself that we feed upon.
The truer it gets, the more absurd it is.
--- RH.