Healing crisis (fact/truth/'never')

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Zev (et al),

 

,At 10:19 AM 7/20/04 -0700, you wrote:

>I am sorry, but this is clearly false. Chinese medicine is based on

>statements of fact. ...

 

You would probably admit that there are apparent contradictions among

different statements throughout the literature. Partially due to differing

context, but also probably genuinely opposed opinions of interpretations.

 

That is to say, a definition of truth as strict non-contradicion (in the

Aristotelian and modern positivistic traditions) is less widely applicable

that an Aquinean definition which takes into account the adequateness of

veracity, i.e. relative to its context.

 

Another tid-bit -- one of my teachers back at PCOM had a useful saying

learned from one of her teachers (in Western bio-medicine):

 

" Never say 'never'. Say 'seldom, if ever'. "

 

Chris

[Guest guest]

Good point, Chris.

 

I did want to point out however that I was responding to another type

of 'never', which is 'never to use moxa in phlegm diseases'.

 

 

On Jul 21, 2004, at 12:20 AM, wrote:

 

> Zev (et al),

>

> ,At 10:19 AM 7/20/04 -0700, you wrote:

>> I am sorry, but this is clearly false. Chinese medicine is based on

>> statements of fact. ...

>

> You would probably admit that there are apparent contradictions among

> different statements throughout the literature. Partially due to

> differing

> context, but also probably genuinely opposed opinions of

> interpretations.

>

> That is to say, a definition of truth as strict non-contradicion (in

> the

> Aristotelian and modern positivistic traditions) is less widely

> applicable

> that an Aquinean definition which takes into account the adequateness

> of

> veracity, i.e. relative to its context.

>

> Another tid-bit -- one of my teachers back at PCOM had a useful saying

> learned from one of her teachers (in Western bio-medicine):

>

> " Never say 'never'. Say 'seldom, if ever'. "

>

> Chris

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