i'm an alright philosopher. I'm not Kant, but who is? #philosophy #academia
i mean, dammit, i'm 43 years old and I dont have a theory of truth. is truth correspondence, identity, coherence, something else? dont ask me! #philosophy #academia
@BayouPhilosophy After thinking for a while, seems to me it's more workable to have a theory of falsehood. We can have ways to show something to be false than to prove something to be true.
@BayouPhilosophy Nobody has it in them to have important thoughts about everything. We pretty much have to proceed as if philosophy can be compartmentalized, so a philosopher of normatively can be excused from having a philosophy of perception, for example. Otherwise we have pure failure
@BayouPhilosophy How about, truth is the most probable outcome. Or all probable outcomes.
@BayouPhilosophy Been listening to a book by Thich Naht Hanh. Buddhist but very philosophical. First book I’ve got by him.
@BayouPhilosophy Truth is a construct that can be twisted.
@BayouPhilosophy Some truths are obvious. I burn my finger it hurts.
@BayouPhilosophy I think that those are all fine ways of thinking about the relationship between our words and our experience, but I don't think any of them are "true", and I suspect a "final definition" is impossible.