"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Ask the Professor: Can There be Objective Universal Truth?
Submitted by Eric Field on Wed, 2013-02-20 01:00
"Whether we believe it or not, that higher reality isn't itself abstract; it's concrete. What IS abstract is our knowledge of it. Abstraction is a process our minds engage in, so that we can hold vast amounts of knowledge. When we "abstract," we take all the relevant similarities and differences among concrete things and group them into higher-level concepts."
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