Frank, I sincerely do not sense that either Fresco, Twyvel or I feel our oxens are being gored. If that applies to anyone, it's you.
I'm surprised and pleased that Twyvel would use something so exoteric as C.S. Peirce's statement (
). I'm also very pleased to see that he appreciates it. I may have gotten my analytical distinction between truth and reality from Peirce, not sure. Truth is "what would be" the case if my logic and/or my evidence are sound. And "truth" is a proposition validated according to certain human-created-and-selected criteria, not a god-given principle. The new pope just criticized what he called "the dictatorship of relativism." That sounds like an oxymoron to me. Dictatorships must rest on absolutism, not relativism. The latter is the decentralization and humanization of truth. I'm sure the pope would agree, Frank, with your objectivist insistence that "TRUTH...is objective. There is absolutely no subjectivitiy about it."