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Old 04-18-2008, 04:27 PM
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The cat, it's color, the name Fuzzy....
cannot be defined as a Truth.
Correct, I wouldn't call expressions truths. "The cat" is an expression, not a statement, and is neither true nor false. "The cat is named Fuzzy", however, is a statement, and thus either true or false.

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You can't take detach yourself from these limits and claim to know Absolutes.

No one can.
Again, "absolutely" refers to certainty, not to some ultimate set of axioms, because there is no such thing. This concept is a useless distortion of the concept of truth.

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So what logic does is define truth in terms of what our minds can observe.
Of course, that's where truth lies: the mind. Where else would it be?
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