Mark,
In a recent gift that Andrew left for the list, he included the
following quote:
"Metaphor and simile are the characteristic tropes of scientific thought,
not formal validity of argument"
-- Rom Harr, Varieties of Realism, 1986
I do believe that you're right to be concerned with the concept of
truth as an important force in making knowledge management a more
human discipline, but I think, purely intuitively, that
"correspondence between statement and fact" is only a sketch, a line
drawing, a caricature of the concept. I'm still trying to make that
intuition clear enough for a good formal exposition, but perhaps
that's a self-defeating effort in itself. Maybe the best thing is to
simply 8^) say, "Yo lo vi; y tu?"
Nevertheless, I suspect I'll keep trying...
Warm regards,
Dwig
"Seeking truth is like trying to point a finger at itself."
-- Robert Black Eagle, in a different forum
--Don Dwiggins <d.l.dwiggins@computer.org>
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