RE: Is truth relative?
January 25, 2015 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2015 at 9:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You can, but suppose that I were to form an equation like that one using my own "frame of reference" - which, in this case appears to be notation - then, the two of us pointed to a physical expression of that equation that were were both attempting to describe. What we'd find, is that it was simply an issue of defining variables in both cases. We'd see that the notation was what was relative, not the truth of what the notation expressed. We do this all the time - with the many languages we all speak to describe, for example..."a red car". Scramble, jumble, or invent as many symbols as you like (and the rules to go with them), but so long as we're describing the same phenomena and both of our models yield accurate data, all of the differences will be window dressing - or at least that how our universe appears to behave, eh? 
(I can't see why your equation would be the antithesis of logic, or somehow demonstrate that you can imagine something that is counter to the basic principles of logic - that equation, after all, could be true, and most certainly is true with properly defined variables - all you did was add an exclamation mark to a statement that is already true on the face of it....... C plus C "undefined" -does- equal 2 times C.......)
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@Rob, we didn;t assume those "logical facts" or "absolutes" -we discovered them. We haven't always had them right. No one woke up and said "I'm just going to assume this random shit here are the rules of the game". Logic is descriptive.
(I can't see why your equation would be the antithesis of logic, or somehow demonstrate that you can imagine something that is counter to the basic principles of logic - that equation, after all, could be true, and most certainly is true with properly defined variables - all you did was add an exclamation mark to a statement that is already true on the face of it....... C plus C "undefined" -does- equal 2 times C.......)
-if a country exists, there is weed -in it-. Needs to be added to the rules.
@Rob, we didn;t assume those "logical facts" or "absolutes" -we discovered them. We haven't always had them right. No one woke up and said "I'm just going to assume this random shit here are the rules of the game". Logic is descriptive.
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