Re: truth
JLNobody wrote:Craven, interesting twist. While you insist that the individual is not thinking in terms of the actual middle but on the basis of a perceived middle, I still feel that this "subjective middle" implies polar extremes. Notice I say implied extremes. What I am talking about here is tacit models, implicit cultural assumptions, unconscious schemes, etc. which make up most of a culture, the part of the iceberg not seen. I prefer your reference to "average" (and like "median" it impies a continuum). The person's "middle" might be a tepid water temperature or a hot one for coffee or a bath. In any case, implicit is the notion of extreme heat and extreme cold.
I'm multitasking today and haven't explained myself well but you picked it up for the most part. Lemme just clarify somethings.
When I spoke of middle AND average it was because some only think that their average is the middle while it really rests in the extremes.
It was just to make sure that the wrongly assuming extremis't's muddle was taken care of.
And yeah, it does in fact imply an extreme, but my lil trip was that the extremes implied might not be the real ones, they are projected from the median.
e.g. Palestinians and Israelis are so deep in their conflict that their criteria for extreme is so sad that it's funny. "No no, killing baby girls is wrong but killing baby boys is fine, they will grow up to be our enemy" said the child weirdly satisfied with his perceived morality.
Quote:You will agree that the concept of "up" implies the complementary notion of "down." But when I look at the sky that does not, in itself, imply "down", but if I THINK that I am "looking up" that does imply "looking down."
I digress but the point of up and down is actually the best possible example for my lil trip about projecting out of the median. Up and down as concepts are projected by the lil fella in the middle with sky = up and ground = down.
Once removed from that tiny scope the human realized the very concepts were flawed.
That would be a pergect example of a concept that was projected from man'd average while the real extremes actually would destroy the very concept.
Quote:I better quit here. I suspect a bit of insanity is approaching.
Don'tcha ever quit. I enjoy reading you.