Re: Tautologies and Empirical Truth

From: The Sophist (sophist_at_brown.edu)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:46:19 -0400

Twex wrote:

> Perhaps there is a paradox to muse over here:
>
> The very statement, 'There are no Universal Truths', Which I tend to
> agree with, would itself be the ONLY Universal truth...

That would be why I would find "we can't know that there are any
universal truths" preferable. That could be universally true without
contradiction. 

-- 
Aaron Boyden
The main division between the so-called Continental and Analytic 
traditions has been disputes over whether the task of being unclear 
should be carried out in natural language or in a formal system.
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