Guest guest Posted July 22, 1999 Report Share Posted July 22, 1999 At 10:24 AM 7/21/99 -0700, a c wrote: >Truth for me, is "what is the case" and the term >"true" refers to a judgement about statements, >propositions, beliefs, etc. Your statement >"objects not being separate from consciousness" >would be "true" if it corresponded to what is the >case. Are you suggesting non-duality in and of >itself makes it impossible to evaluate statements >as being true or false? Yes I am. True and false are just another duality. Statements/world are another one. Since there is no external world, there are really no statements either, since statements would external objects. And of course the world to which the statements are supposed to correspond would also be an external object -- something that can't be evaluated in-and-of-itself in comparison to the statements. So much for the correspondence theory of truth. What of the coherence theory, where truth is coherence among statements? There can't be any statements (even this one!!), so there's nothing to cohere with anything. In advaita vedanta, the teachings of advaita vedanta are part of mithya, illusion, ?no? >ahh... here we are getting *real* close to "pay >dirt" as far as I'm concerned. When the blessed >moment occurs in which "the last model falls away" >there is silence, period, full stop. What is then >the case (independent of ideas about it) simply >cannot be conceptualized or put into words. So let's not ask or tell... Regards, --Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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