Just for Matt; Fascinating Math (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, March 31, 2012, 15:37 (4620 days ago) @ xeno6696

MATT: If you have a scientific mindset, you gave up on the idea of "truth" a long, long time ago.-And if you have a philosophical mindset, you gave up on the idea of "truth" an even longer long time ago. It was one of the first items on our epistemological agenda, when we distinguished between truth (unattainable), knowledge and belief. But my conscience bids me remind you that if you insist on standing in the middle of the road spouting about the unattainableness of truth, the unreality of time, the relativity of knowledge etc., you will end up splattered all over the tarmac ... and that's the truth, in spite of science and philosophy!