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To: jlallen who wrote (4499)	9/22/1998 7:59:00 AM
From: Hiram Walker	Respond to of 67261

jlallen, truth is not what you speak,everyone derives a different meaning,and through that meaning sometimes a truth is found. You cannot speak a collective truth,until meaning is determined,and until that meaning is found to have truth. You speak words,with little wisdom,lots of fallacy,and a little bit of hyprocrisy. Read Noam Chomsky or Emile Durkheim. This is relevent to the issues at hand,from Durkheim. Durkheim believed that scientific methods should be applied to the study of society. He proposed that groups had characteristics that were more than, or different from, the sum of the individuals' characteristics or behaviors. He was also concerned with the basis of social stability-the common values shared by a society, such as morality and religion. In his view, these values, or the collective conscience, are the cohesive bonds that hold the social order together. A breakdown of these values, he believed, leads to a loss of social stability and to individual feelings of anxiety and dissatisfaction. and from C.S. Peirce,though my friend Blasco Sobrinho would recoil at the context of this clip. Peirce is best known for his philosophical system, later called pragmatism. According to his pragmatic philosophy, no object or concept possesses inherent validity or importance. Its significance lies only in the practical effects resulting from its use or application. The "truth" of an idea or object, therefore, can be measured by empirical investigation of its usefulness. The concept was expanded by the American philosophers William James and John Dewey, and it profoundly influenced modern philosophical and sociological thought. Hiram