[lit-ideas] Re: Greek To Me
- From: karltrogge@xxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:09:24 +0200
On 13-Jul-09, at 3:43 AM, karltrogge@xxxxxxxx wrote:
And now to bed (it's 3:40 a.m. over here!).
Good thing I checked my mail before I acted on that - for there's
something there that would have no doubt seeped into my sleeping
consciousness and given me NIGHTMARES!
On 13-Jul-09, at 3:34 AM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
I cannot 'contradict' "p" without being _false_ myself, I expect
Socrates is implicating. For surely one _can_ contradict Truth.
Sure one can - as I said - and then one proves the opposite of what
one is claiming, by RAA! Read it AGAIN.
That was Hegel's pastime in looking for the Synthesis that he hoped
was corporized in the Kingdom of Prussia:
truth <---------> falsehood
THESIS ANTI-THESIS
p ~p
the truth-value
gap
(SYNTHESIS)
~~p <=> p
Ye gods and little fishes! Not content with getting Plato, Kant and
Strawson wrong, he's started in on Hegel! Give me strength O Lord!
Can you cite me ONE - that's right, ANY - passage from Hegel that
supports the dog's breakfast that you've spewed over my screen above?
I would suggest that you RUN do not walk to your local bookseller and
acquire a copy of Michaelm Inwood's A HEGEL DICTIONARY (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1992). Look up the entry "truth, falsity and
correctness". Try to reconcile what is said there with ANY of what
you have written above.
You'll love it JL - there's a whole chapter on 'Hegel and his
language', including etymology. (You can actually find much of this
online at Google Books!)
Karl Trogge
Hamburg
P.S. I'm TERRIBLE at the rhetorical aspects of communication and
sometimes go way over the top (especially at 4 in the morning). If my
'Ye gods and little fishes', 'give me strength o lord', 'dog's
breakfast', etc. get to be too much please let me know. It's all
meant with a ;-) , like much of what you write ...
Karl
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