Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Ideas referred to anything my be true or falsea
"Whenever the mind refers any of its ideas to anything extraneous to them, they are then capable to be called true or false." This is true, but only to a certain extent. Locked doesn't take into account the state of being unsure. There are obviously times in life when you cannot deem something to be true or false, therefore the in between marker would be uncertainty. To deem something either true or false everytime your mind analyzes something is a ridiculous concept because sometimes we are not presented with enough evidence to ascertain a conclusion.
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I agree with you Keith. I don't know if you have heard of this before, but as the saying goes "theres two sides to every story, and then theres the truth". I think that this quote pretty much applies to every situation dealing with people. You could ask about what happened and yet you will get a different story from every person who was there. So how could you possibly make out what exactly is true and what exactly is false? As for Locke, perhaps something that he is sure of being true, may seem false to me and you. Therefore, why should anyone believe with 100% certainty that certain things are true or false if you, yourself did not prove it or witness it...And can't there be an in between? Not everything is to one extreme, thats why these are so common... maybe, half, possibly, could be, and dont know...
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