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Old 05-30-2008, 02:58 AM
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Someone has had some formal philosophy training. ;-)

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Originally Posted by Suburbanite View Post
Of them, I recommend you adopt my perspective. I believe, counter to your current perspective that there are ultimate truths, my perspective will better serve you to cope with your environment,
Would this be implying that not all possible truths are equal? Would this in itself not be a truth?

I believe that one’s perspective on truth should be the one that most closely portrays and explains reality. The simple fact of the matter is if I jump off a cliff I will die absolutely despite whatever I believe.

I’m probably missing something, not fully grasping your argument, and doing a poor job of presenting my own. I’m sorry for this. I’m rather tired and probably should put off responding to your post until I have more rest. As matter of clarification are you talking purely moral truth because that would completely invalidate my argument and I would need to reconstruct it...which I probably will not attempt to do until I get some sleep.
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