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Old 07-10-2008, 01:23 PM   #105 (permalink)
mixedmedia
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Originally Posted by Willravel
You have to break reason down to it's simplest definition: seeking to discover truth and what's best. Unless you think these things are always subjective, you must admit that reason (outside of maths) does exist objectively. There are truths, aren't there? There are verifiable better ways to do things, right?
not necessarily...
but loquitor covered all that much better than I could
I don't know that there is 'truth' and I'm not inclined to think that what one person (or a group of people) believes to be the truth is necessarily what is 'best'
in fact, the more I think about it, the more 'truth' and 'best' just look like words...and words are not rational
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