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To: HangnJudge

"Probably more correct is that all human thought includes within it embedded error."

Nice relativist statement. So it doesn't really matter whether you believe that the sun orbits the earth, or the earth orbits the sun, as all human thought has some "embedded error"?


336 posted on 03/14/2006 11:42:32 PM PST by fragrant abuse
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To: fragrant abuse
Nice relativist statement. So it doesn't really matter whether you believe that the sun orbits the earth, or the earth orbits the sun, as all human thought has some "embedded error"?

All viewpoints within the framework of the universe are "relative"

In order to establish an absolute frame of reference
You have to be looking at the universe from the outside in

This is the great debate

If the Universe is the set of points in which we can, in theory, interact
Is the Universe the only meaningful framework for attempting understanding?
in which all viewpoints are "relative"
Or is there a greater viewpoint from external to the Universe
which, by definition, we can't perceive?
But can only infer

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
----- Aristotle

378 posted on 03/15/2006 9:11:51 AM PST by HangnJudge
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