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Understanding: a way of seeing

 
 
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Reply Sat 7 Jul, 2007 04:05 am
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fresco
 
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Reply Sat 7 Jul, 2007 07:10 am
Coberst,

You are playing on the sands of epistemology where concepts of "truth" dissapear with the ebb and flow of linguistic analysis. I suggest you expand your interest in language (metaphor) by reading up on Deleuze and Foucault if you wish to make any sense of your questions.
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Reply Sat 7 Jul, 2007 07:52 am
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder:

http://www.chinapage.org/story/beauty.html

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59100.html

Beauty in eyes of beholder, study confirms:

WASHINGTON: When it comes to something pleasant, it seems that the phrase "easy on the eyes" may hold more truth than earlier believed, for a study has found that objects or people appear more attractive when the mind can process their looks faster.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2037080.cms

Scientists ponder beauty and the eye of the beholder:
Evidence increasingly suggests the human brain is hard-wired for aesthetics.

http://www.sigidiart.com/Docs/beauty.htm

I will give a simple explanation of my own. I will go to a blind man and
describe the beauty of a top cine actress. Can any amount of description
make him realize how beautiful she is? He needs eyes to see and understand
for him self.

When candles are off, all women are fair!

There is no single definition of truth about which the majority of philosophers agree. Various theories of truth, commonly involving different definitions of "truth", continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; how to define and identify truth; what roles do revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute.

For example, take the case of a grain sand. One scientist explores
its chemical contents and publishes a paper. It is his view of truth.
Another scientist explores its micro magnetic properties hitherto
unknown and publishes his theory. That is his view of truth.
Then another scientist uses some ultra modern equipment to find
aura fields of sand. That will become his view of truth.

In fact, Masaru Emoto has done research on how molecular structure of water is affected by emotions.

http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm

http://www.energetic-medicine.net/research/Conciousness%20of%20water.htm

Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos. It may have begun with Democritus in the 5th century B.C. or with Pythagoras and is a philosophical conception that runs through Socrates, and Plato and through to the Renaissance. With Pythagoras, the discovery of the golden ratio and its philosophical conception called the Golden mean, the Greeks saw that this golden ratio is repeated in all parts of the ordered universe both large and small. The Greeks were very concerned with a rational explanation of everything and saw this repetition of the golden mean as a pattern that was reproduced throughout reality. It is a product of the ancient Greek mentality of seeing reality as a whole and noticing patterns that are repeated throughout all the levels of reality.

The English physician and alchemist Robert Fludd (1574-1637) expicitly based his work Utriusque Cosmi Historia (The history of the two worlds) upon the macro/micro correspondence; as does Sir Thomas Browne in his binary Discourses of 1658: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial depicts the small, temporal world of man, whilst The Garden of Cyrus represents the macrocosm, in which the ubiquitous and eternal quincunx pattern is discerned in art, nature and the Cosmos.

The Hindu Upanishads say that every thing in creation is a microcosm.
The more you investigate, the more you will know that there is more
to investigate and know. Even a sand of grain is a microcosm.
It contains infinite number of truths.
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