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truth and consequences
Aaron Fox (aaf@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU)
Wed, 23 Nov 1994 15:54:54 -0600
Isn't it curious how "relativists" always trip themselves up when they
assert that the ONLY "Truth" is that there is no "Truth," *only* "truths."
(you can think about it all day long, but it's unsolvable in any closed
system of logic, like Xeno's paradox, or a certain Heisenbergian insight .
. . and therein lies the beauty of relativism and other "centrisms" -- you
never have to answer Lenin's question: what is to be DONE?)
To quote the great Jim Hightower:
"The only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead
armadillos."
And to praphrase Geertz's paraphrase of somebody else's paraphrase, lately
it seems like it's dead armadillos all the way down.
Aaron Fox
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