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In Reply to: POST COWS, PIGS, WARS AND WITCHES RESPONSES HERE posted by Tom Bacig on May 13, 1998 at 07:37:37:

The sheer fact that he would say that puts him firmly in the self-rightous pure classicist category. Any other group would know that there is no transcendental truth (that Humankind can know, at least.) In this matter, we sort of follow with Nietzsche, in saying that we can never really know any truth that is absolutely correct and never could be wrong. We aren't in the position to look at the strings that pull us one and another, so we have no way of possibly knowing what really is truth. Some think that Freddy N. was saying we are all liars, but we know that he was merely saying that language relies on a cultural context and mutual understanding of meaning that there is no guarantee everyone will share.

If we were to tell you that Mustangs are the best cars, that relies on the listener knowing first what a car is, and secondly what a Mustang is. Then, unless the listener takes a Mustang to be a horse, they then might understand what we were saying. However, if they have had different experiences with owning and driving Mustangs, or even heard word of mouth about them, they won't agree with what we said.

So basically, any ideas or thoughts that claim a universal truth can't be true, at least to us, because our experiences are to the contrary.

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: The sheer fact that he would say that puts him firmly in the self-rightous pure classicist category. Any other group would know that there is no transcendental truth (that Humankind can know, at least.) In this matter, we sort of follow with Nietzsche, in saying that we can never really know any truth that is absolutely correct and never could be wrong. We aren't in the position to look at the strings that pull us one and another, so we have no way of possibly knowing what really is truth. Some think that Freddy N. was saying we are all liars, but we know that he was merely saying that language relies on a cultural context and mutual understanding of meaning that there is no guarantee everyone will share. : If we were to tell you that Mustangs are the best cars, that relies on the listener knowing first what a car is, and secondly what a Mustang is. Then, unless the listener takes a Mustang to be a horse, they then might understand what we were saying. However, if they have had different experiences with owning and driving Mustangs, or even heard word of mouth about them, they won't agree with what we said. : So basically, any ideas or thoughts that claim a universal truth can't be true, at least to us, because our experiences are to the contrary.

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