Tuesday, February 10, 2009

There is no such thing as truth and error

There is no such thing as truth and error. If a crow sees mistakes the hoverfly for a wasp and chooses not to eat it – the crow could be said to be in error. But there is a certain truth in the crow’s error – it is correct that the crow should be in error. If we disagree with a group in consensus they might see us as in error – but who is to say that we are wrong to be in error. Who is the ultimate arbiter? Philosophers love discovering the truth – yet they fall into error less the understand that each discovery of truth is also a discovery of error.

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