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To: d:oug who wrote (66506)	3/25/2001 10:01:56 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

OT Truth is a human thing, since I must affirm it in order for it to exist. Before my judgement which is an adherence of my will and a free commitment of my being, there exists only neutral and floating ideas which are neither true nor false. Man is thus the being through whom truth appears in the world. I can even take this a step further and say, like Kant, that the human mind constitutes the Truth. Man must ponder the world, must will his thinking and must transform the order of being into a system of ideas. GATA needs to learn intellectual responsibility. At every moment, a person experiences the freedom of his thought and his solitude as well. As Heidegger has said, nobody can die for me. But Descarte had said earlier that nobody can understand for me. In the end, we must say "yes" or "no" and decide alone, for the entire universe, on what is true. I suggest that GATA read Descarte's Meditations On First Philosophy and rid itself of all its prejudices so it can learn how to build a secure foundation of ideas. This is where GATA needs to begin and learn some humility: "It is now some years since I detected how many were the false ideas that I had from my earliest youth admitted as true, and how doubtful was everything I had since construed on this basis; and from that time I was convinced that I must once for all seriously undertake to rid myself of all the opinions which I had formerly accepted, and commence to build anew from the foundation if I wanted to establish any firm and permanent structure in the sciences." Rene Descarte, in the First Meditation, in Meditations on First Philosophy.