posts tagged ‘truth’
Epokhē
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: language, meaning, perception, quotes, truth
“Epoché (ἐποχή, epokhē “suspension”) is an ancient Greek term which, in its philosophical usage, describes the theoretical moment where all judgments about the existence of the external world, and consequently all action in the world, are suspended.”
Antinomy
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: language, meaning, perception, quotes, senses, thinking, truth, uncertainty
“Antinomy (Greek αντι-, against, plus νομος, law) literally means the mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. (…) The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience (phenomena).”
Aporia
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: language, meaning, perception, quotes, truth, uncertainty
“In philosophy, an aporia is a philosophical puzzle or a seemingly insoluble impasse in an inquiry, often arising as a result of equally plausible yet inconsistent premises. It can also denote the state of being perplexed, or at a loss, at such a puzzle or impasse.”
Fuzzy logic
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: mathematics, meaning, perception, quotes, truth, uncertainty
“Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic derived from fuzzy set theory to deal with reasoning that is fluid or approximate rather than fixed and exact. In contrast with “crisp logic”, where binary sets have two-valued logic, fuzzy logic variables may have a truth value that ranges in degree between 0 and 1. In simple words we can say fuzzy logic is a super set of conventional (boolean) logic that has been extended to handle the concept of partial truth–the truth values between completely true and completely false.”
On me faict haïr les choses vray-semblables quand on me les plante pour infaillibles
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: books, language, perception, quotes, truth
“On me faict haïr les choses vray-semblables quand on me les plante pour infaillibles. J’aime ces mots qui amollissent et moderent la temerité de nos propositions: «A l’avanture», «Aucunement», «Quelque», «On dict», «Je pense» et semblables. Et si j’eusse eu à dresser des enfans, je leur eusse tant mis en la bouche cette façon de respondre, enquêteuse, non resolutive: «Qu’est-ce à dire?», «Je ne l’entens pas», «Il pourroit être», «Est-il vray?»… qu’ils eussent plutôt gardé la forme d’apprentis à soixante ans, que de representer les docteurs à dix ans, comme ils font”.
Michel de Montaigne, Essais, livre 3, Des boiteux
Una incorrecta descripción del mundo
18 September 2010 • out of context
tags: books, civilization, economy, nature, perception, politics, quotes, religion, senses, truth
“Desgraciadamente, tan pronto como empezamos a crecer somos adoctrinados por todos los medios posibles. A causa de la conceptualización, nuestras experiencias sensoriales nos informan con una incorrecta descripción del mundo. Cuando vemos una montaña no la vemos en su mismidad, sino que adherimos a ella toda clase de ideas, a veces puramente intelectuales, pero frecuentemente cargadas de emotividad. Cuando todo esto envuelve la montaña, esta se transforma en algo monstruoso. Ello es debido al propio adoctrinamiento de nuestra enseñanza «intelectual» y a nuestros intereses personales, ya sean individuales, políticos, sociales, económicos o religiosos. La imagen que así se configura es horrible, retorcida y tergiversada de todos los modos posibles. En lugar de vivir en un mundo presente a la Naturaleza Primaria en su desnudez, vivimos en un mundo artificial y «culturizado». Y lo peor es que no somos conscientes de ese hecho”.
El zen y la cultura japonesa by Daisetz T. Suzuki
Una verdad, una mentira
17 August 2010 • out of context
tags: books, mankind, quotes, truth
“Es un hecho comprobado que a la gente le resulta mucho más fácil creer una mentira que han oído repetir mil veces que una verdad que nunca habían oído antes”.
El tao de la salud, el sexo y la larga vida by Daniel Reid
Self Portrait as a Drowned Man
25 July 2010 • outer
tags: body, capitalism, criticism, death, fiction, humour, politics, ruin, statements, truth
“This photograph, shot in 1840 and titled Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, is not of a drowned man, and if it had been it would be far less interesting or important. This humble image, so far as anyone knows, can claim all of the following honorifics- First instance of intentional photographic fakery. First photographic practical joke. First use of a photograph as propaganda / protest. And, quite possibly, a result of the world’s first reliable photographic process, direct positive or otherwise.” [read complete text at the nonist]
Never sure
3 February 2010 • out of context
tags: error, mathematics, quotes, science, truth
“There is no more greater error in science than to believe that just because some mathematical calculation has been completed some aspect of nature is certain.”
Alfred North Whitehead