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Fall Ability

The document discusses the relationship between fallibility and truth-seeking principles, arguing that fallibility emphasizes the reliance on concepts learned from others rather than direct experience. It posits that while perception is intimate and factual, what is perceived is often based on conventional beliefs, making it fallible. Ultimately, it asserts that the pursuit of truth begins with recognizing and eliminating misconceptions, highlighting the importance of the seeker in the quest for truth.

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Fall Ability

The document discusses the relationship between fallibility and truth-seeking principles, arguing that fallibility emphasizes the reliance on concepts learned from others rather than direct experience. It posits that while perception is intimate and factual, what is perceived is often based on conventional beliefs, making it fallible. Ultimately, it asserts that the pursuit of truth begins with recognizing and eliminating misconceptions, highlighting the importance of the seeker in the quest for truth.

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Do you think fallibility principles contradict with the truth-seeking principles?

fallibility as a principle implies accepting conventions as a compromise/supporting method in forming a


comprehensive view of the world [I had to look it up and provide a translation in my understanding of
this principle]. Well, time and space are conventions, useful in communication and in making sense of
the world of conventions. The thing about principle of fallibility is that it does not recognize that there is
no world outside of the concepts learned from others to attach to the phenomenal objects of the world.
Fallibility is not a tool but the ‘thing’ itself- all you know about the world is concepts only. For example,
the word ‘world’ is a very vague, generic term that may mean different things in different contexts but
you cannot point to the ‘world’, as you cannot point to ‘matter’ or to time-space, etc.

In the case of ‘concrete objects’- the word water is not water; to know water you must drink it. Sensorial
perception is the only tool available for knowing the world but knowing the world doesn’t mean
memorizing a vocabulary/definitions. In the case of water, a description of its taste is not enough to
quench thirst and so the experience of quenching thirst is not really describable, being very intimate.
Perhaps it is here where fallibility is used as a approximation of a common indescribable, intimate
experience. All communication is conducted at this level. Concepts aside, the real experience of
quenching thirst is indescribable. This is applicable to any of the other four senses. Perception is certain;
that which is perceived is not.

Perception is intimate, that which is perceived is common/conventional. Perception is fact; what is


perceived is belief based on fallible hearsay. Fact is the starting point in the search for truth; there is no
other way. Fact is acquired by eliminating that which is not fact, the conventional fallible, starting with
the seeker of truth because without a seeker, there is no truth to be known. And, if by absurd, there was
such a thing, what would it matter if the seeker of it was not?!

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