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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Heidegger
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In article <4p1vsr$2d3@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
tobis@scram.ssec.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis) writes:

> David Swanson (dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu) wrote:
> 
> : "True" is (I should set this to music I've said it so much) a term we
> : apply to our current firm beliefs.  "Lying" is presenting something as
> : your belief which is not your belief.  Outside of this discussion, you
> : would probably accept such an obvious answer.
> 
> The name of the rhetorical device you have used is "begging the question".
> Please now proceed to define "belief" without reference to the concept
> of "truth", or any other term which have no obvious definitions that
> don't refer to "truth". 
> 
> still curious
> mt
> 

Telling the truth is telling what one believes ("to be true").  What
one believes are a series of notions one finds useful.

David

"Resistance to the proposition that the essence of truth is freedom is
based on preconceptions, the most obstinate of which is that freedom is
a property of man."  Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Truth," [Vom
Wesen der Wahrheit] translated by John Sallis, in "Basic Writings,"
(old version, 1977) p.126.
