Comments on: Quick Quote https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2011/02/12/quick-quote/ A blog from the staff at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:58:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: flux https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2011/02/12/quick-quote/#comment-10129 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:58:43 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/?p=216#comment-10129 I find biologist and philosopher Humberto Maturana’s exploration of this question to be particularly compelling. This isn’t the best translation (I’ve studied extensively with one of his colleagues who conversed with him about this after it was written), but it will suffice to convey the general idea:

http://www.enolagaia.com/M88Reality.html

It’s a fairly dense read and worth reading more than once.

]]> By: autodidakto https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2011/02/12/quick-quote/#comment-10128 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:18:33 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/?p=216#comment-10128 Great post. I stole this quote for my tumblr blog (http://notobviouslybad.tumblr.com) because by coincidence I’ve already posted two quotes by modern thinkers reflecting on past thinkers’ views on how we arrive at truth. I’lll copy them here:

“The way in which we understand reality and truth is by exposing a proposition to the maximum number of perceptions and then coming up with the consensus.”

“Nietzsche is a nihilist about knowledge. He refuses to take “The Truth” as something fixed, absolute, and easily accessible. Quite the contrary. He says: Where truth is concerned, we should be skeptical. We should be subtle, and we should not accept this notion that says that truth is something fixed and out there as opposed to something that, in part, we create through our experiments and through our living.”

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