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Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!news.udel.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christianFrom: REXLEX@fnal.fnal.govNewsgroups: soc.religion.christianSubject: Re: Certainty and ArroganceMessage-ID: <Apr.15.00.58.31.1993.28903@athos.rutgers.edu>Date: 15 Apr 93 04:58:32 GMTSender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.eduOrganization: FNAL/AD/NetLines: 70Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.eduIn article <Apr.13.00.08.33.1993.28409@athos.rutgers.edu>kilroy@gboro.rowan.edu (Dr Nancy's Sweetie) writes:>>There is no way out of the loop.Oh contrer mon captitan! There is a way. Certainly it is not by human reason. Certainly it is not by human experience. (and yet it is both!) To paraphraseSartre, the particular is absurd unless it has an infinite reference point. Itis only because of God's own revelation that we can be absolute about a thing. Your logic comes to fruition in relativism. >>"At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded."> -- Ludwig WittgensteinAh, now it is clear. Ludwig was a desciple of Russell. Ludwig's fame is oftenexplained by the fact that he spawned not one but two significant movements incontemporary philosophy. Both revolve around Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus('21) and Philosophical Investigation ('53). Many of Witt's comments andimplicit conclusions suggest ways of going beyond the explicit critique oflanguage he offers. According to some of the implicit suggestions of Witt'sthought, ordinary language is an invaluable resource, offering a necessaryframework for the conduct of daily life. However, though its formal featuresremain the same, its content does not and it is always capable of beingtranscended as our experience changes and our understanding is deepened, givingus a clearer picture of what we are and what we wish to say. On Witt's ownaccount, there is a dynamic fluidity of language. It is for this reason thatany critique of language must move from talking about the limits of language totalking about its boundaries, where a boundary is understood not as a wall buta threshold. vonWrights's comment that Witt's "sentences have a content that often liesdeep beneath the surface of language." On the surface, Witt talks of theinsuperable position of ordinary language and the necessity of bringingourselves to accept it without question. At the same time, we are faced withWitt's own creative uses of language and his concern for bringing about changesin our traditional modes of understanding. Philosophy, then, through moreperspicacious speech, seeks to effect this unity rather than assuming that itis already functioning. Yes? The most brilliant of scientists are unable tooffer a foundation for human speech so long as they reject Christianity! In hisTractatus we have the well nigh perfect exhibition of the nature of the impasseof the scientific ideal of exhaustive logical analysis of Reality by man. Perfect language does not exist for fallen man, therefore we must get on aboutour buisness of relating Truth via ordinary language. This is why John's Gospel is so dear to most Christians. It is so simple init conveyance of the revealation of God, yet so full of unlieing depth ofunderstanding. He viewed Christ from the OT concept of "as a man thinketh, sohe is." John looked at the outward as only an indicator of what was inside,that is the consciousness of Christ. And so must we. Words are only vehicalsof truth. He is truth. The scriptures are plain in their expounding thatthere is a Truth and that it is knowable. THere are absolutes, and they tooare knowable. However, they are only knowable when He reveals them to theindividual. There is, and we shouldn't shy from this, a mysticism toChristianity. Paul in ROm 8 says there are 3 men in the world. There is theone who does not have the Spirit and therefore can not know the things of theSpirit (the Spirit of Truth) and there is the one who has the Spirit and hasthe capacity to know of the Truth, but there is the third. THe one who notonly has the Spirit, but that the Spirit has him! Who can know the deep thingsof God and reveal them to us other than the Spirit. And it is only the deepthings of GOd that are absolute and true. There is such a thing as true truth and it is real, it can be experiencedand it is verifiable. I disagree with Dr Nancy's Sweetie's conclusion becauseif it is taken to fruition it leads to relativism which leads to dispair. "I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He wouldsay unto me." Job 23ff--Rexsuggested, easy reading about epistimology: "He is there and He is not Silent" by Francis Schaeffer.
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