Monday, June 05, 2006

Cleaning out my email III - Language, Reality, Truth

...the verbal grunts, and the symbol systems we use to describe said manifestations, as we attribute them to things and actions are wholly relativistic and are only representative of reality so far as groups consent or individuals imagine within their respective game systems.

As goes language, so goes philosophies, religions and models of reality. All are, at best, approximations of reality and only "true" so far as people agree on them within the game rules they've chosen to play by. History is the story of one popular model of reality being supplanted by another. The concept that now, and only now, we've struck "truth" is, at best, hubris.

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