(May 16, 2013 at 3:11 pm)krautpasta Wrote: So what's your opinion about this and Plato's allegory of the cave? Do you think that it's true that relativists don't differ much from religious men?
I am of the opinion that you don't understand Plato's cave. You invoke Platos's cave as some reletivistic mantra.
Plato's cave is a thought experiment. How do I know this? Because, Plato had to invoke the fact that the observer was shackled; thereby, limiting the view to the shadows on the wall. Let me put this another way...
Put a stick into water, the stick appears to bend. Pull the stick out of the water and it's straight again. Why??? Does water have the power to bend sticks, but relinqhishes the ability when the stick is extacted? Or, does a God create the illusion because he has nothing better to do? Or, is it caused by the differenece in the refraction of light through different media?
