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Re: Perception and Reality

From: Artemis420
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 22:55:11 PST

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    In a message dated 2/17/00 6:50:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, occti
    writes:

    << Two monks were sitting outside the temple looking at a flag rippling in
     the breeze. The first monk says to the second, "Flag does not move; wind
     moves." The second monk replies, "Wind does not move; flag moves." A
     priest of the temple overhears them and whacks them both on the head with a
     bamboo stick. The Buddhist priest said to the two monks, "Wind doesn't
     move; flag doesn't move. Mind moves." >>
    Somewhat like Positivism.
    The philosophy of logical positivism says that all metaphysical statements
    are meaningless. They are not empirically verifiable and they are not
    fruitful tautologies. There is no possible way to verify their truth or
    falsity by appeal to experience. No possible experience could ever support
    metaphysical statements such as "God is perfect". Metaphysical questions are
    pseudo questions and metaphysics is relegated to nonsensical utterances.
    Artie 

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