(January 24, 2016 at 11:14 am)robvalue Wrote: Phil: I have no idea what you're talking about I'm afraid.
Here's a story:
God just told me I'm in charge of the world now. Then he destroyed himself.
Is this story true in some way, because it's a story?
Yes. You might find this argument a bit of a mind-twisting to follow though I'm afraid.
To make your statement meaningful, we have to relativise the statement against the full perspective context it was written from. Part of considering a perspective fully is to understand the person's motives for making statement, that's particularly important here, because your motive is to say whatever needs to be said to disprove what I said. So the objective meaning of the words has to be completely ignored, and nothing more than the subjective agenda of the words considered.
So your story is "the story of disproving my story".
And (insofar as it disproves my story) - it's a TRUE story, because it undermines what I said.
Except only from a perspective, because by deconstructing it I can (and have) undermine it by differentiating it's communication into objective and subjective dimensions and noting that only the latter is significant.
