Re: Gemetica and the creation of 'gemes'.

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 20:38:08 GMT

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Subject: Re: Gemetica and the creation of 'gemes'.
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    On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:30:07AM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
    > On 6 Feb 2001, at 13:44, Robin Faichney wrote:
    >
    > > That's one way of looking at it. There are many others. None is
    > > objectively, inherently superior: meaning is only consistent within a
    > > language game, and both context and goal are required to determine
    > > what's right.
    > >
    > I do not accept the paradox of absolute relativism, where no answer
    > is any better or worse than any other.

    And I don't accept your paradoxical relative absolutism.

    Answers are nearly always better or worse than each other. All I'm saying
    is, we need to know the context of the question in order to reliably judge
    that. We don't even understand the question unless we know its context!
    Your attempt to transcend context results only in vacuous jargonizing.
    Context is what keeps us down to earth. Level-headed. You know? 

    -- 
Robin Faichney
robin@reborntechnology.co.uk

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