Monday, October 15, 2007

The domain of truth

When I finished my O levels I thought I knew (very nearly) everything

By the time I finished A levels I was beginning to think: Hmm

Before I graduated I knew that I would never even know everything in Kendall & Stuart

Disconcerting. Humbling (humiliating, even)

But also liberating

Life is not one long preparation for an exam with right & wrong answers

The world is, after all, just what you make (of) it

Which is not the same thing as saying that all facts/opinions/fancies are equally valid

There may be no Right Answer, no one True Explanation

But truth, like mathematical equations, has its domains