One short simple question?
I have a blank white sheet of paper.An artist passes me and says,"Oh what wonderous paper, so full of hope and promise, waiting to be filled up with colour and emotion."A chemist overhears and joins...
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Nice :)Is the nature of an object:* In the process of its creation and subsequent physical structure?* In its perceived essence?* In its potential utility relative to a specific person?(that would...
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"I have a blank white sheet of paper."What makes it a blank white sheet of paper in the first place?When you look at a flat surface with edges and corners, no color, depth, no shadows, what or who...
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-----"What makes it a blank white sheet of paper in the first place?"The knowledge of it's common use is the determining factor behind blank. The use of the word blank infers that the paper can be...
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ah, knowledge makes it a blank white sheet of paper.Where did that knowledge come from?Got to figure that one out first if you want to get to the truth.
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What, you want The Answer? Here?Tell me first what you see as truth, and then I can tell you who is telling it.
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Unfortunately today time is slipping me by. I may not have time to get back to this discussion until the weekend. Thus is life. But to reiterate before we all get lost in the sea of questions?----- I...
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But I still cannot give you An answer to your question, Orac1e, without your first answering mine:Quote: Tell me first what you see as truth, and then I can tell you who is telling it. Regretfully, I...
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"Oh what wonderous paper, so full of hope and promise, waiting to be filled up with colour and emotion."The artist does not deny that the object is a piece of paper. The rest of what he or she says...
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Y'all do realize that the artist, the poet, the chemist, etc can all be the same person, don't you? And what is even more amazing, that person can be all of those things at the same time.
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Going back to the first post...The poster states "I have a blank white sheet of paper."The poster's observation (of a blank white paper) is no different than the comments of the next three. And yet...
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Quote: I am confused. Who is telling the truth?You are, whoever you are and whatever you are thinking. The sheet of paper is only what you want to make of it, its existence is unimportant without a...
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Hmmm...it is all relative, really, to the person who is speaking. Truth is relative to the person who says something, not to the person who hears it. That's why I personally believe that none of us...
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One short, too-simplistic answer.Promise, material, function and symbolism. Each describes one aspect of the object, not the object itself. Because the object is a whole that embodies all these...
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Clearly, there is no absolute truth in this illustration.But is this possible?If things are to be defined by what we perceive them to be, then what makes 1 + 1 = 2? Why should your word for the matter...
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Absolutely :)Nor need it be a sheet of paper, to take on this marvellous multilayered texture. Absolutely anything in the world can be a representation of the one perceiving it and describing it....
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