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"Can one be sympathetic to both sides, to mathematical /analytical =
rigour; and to the poetic expression of metaphor be it Kantian, =
Nietzschean, Heideggerean or otherwise?"
Sure. Why not? Take me. I have two degrees: One for studying quantum =
mechanics (our physics) and one for studying Greek (Aristotle's =
Physics).
"One might well ask: what do we want from the notion of truth, and how =
must it satisfy such conditions?"
All we should want is to behold it as such, and not to preconceive it in =
any form or as any notion.
"Is it the correspondence theory, or is it some form of personal =
heimlichkeit, of attunement to one's world, for after all, the world of =
self is not created by mathematical proofs?"
Why the dichotomy between hardcore math and poetic rapture that builds a =
dwelling? Is not the latter a kind of correspondence? A correspondence =
of thinking to the matter itself?
"We might need trig or the Doppler effect to travel to other planets, =
but do we need self-affirmed knowledge of mathenatical=20
truth (truth independent of us) to survive?"
To survive as animals, no. To survive as rational, yes.=20
Now, of course, "self-affirmed" is *ratio* in its derogatory sense (a =
sense made famous by Heidegger), but there are (to paraphrase =
Shakespeare) more things in logos and physis than are dreamt of in your =
Cartesian or Heideggerian philosophy, and hence *ratio* is still worthy =
of thought: it is more than mere mathematical certainty, and more than a =
straw missive of Beyng.
"If Heidegger looked at technology and said there was so much potential, =
yet all that power does is trap us and our worlds as means rather than =
ends-need he be denying maths or progress? Not rather blind unthinking =
faith in progress without consideration of the consequences?"
That is how I understand him. Still, perhaps even "consideration of the =
consequences" is too calculative for the quiet task of the shepherd of =
Being... :-)
"If truth only has meaning independent of us, I question the validity of =
even discussing it.
Yet I am not suggesting an argument for the title above."
Truth neither is solely dependent on us nor solely independent from us. =
We exist in the inbetween, in the methexis. In truth we live and move =
and have our being. And we can know truth because of the intellect.=20
And so back to nous: ti estin?
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