On 4/12/02 11:42:00 AM, Krysta Crippen wrote:
>On 4/12/02 11:21:00 AM, Robert Chase San
>Jose wrote:
>>On 4/12/02 11:16:00 AM, Amy Hall wrote:
>>>Tompkins suggests that truth
>>>is in the eye of the beholder
>>>pretty much, leaving it all
>>>relative. I think her
>>>conclusion is a cop-out. Just
>>>because she couldn't find the
>>>truth does not mean that there
>>>wasn't one
>>>When she says that "any one
>>>fact is perspectival doesn't
>>>change its factual nature in
>>>the slightest. It merely
>>>reiterates it. (688)" I have
>>>to disagree. If three people
>>>see a car accident happen,
>>>each from an alternate point
>>>of view, every account will
>>>likely be different. Fair
>>>enough, every person is giving
>>>"their truth" but just because
>>>it is true to them does not
>>>make it true. There is really
>>>only one thing that has
>>>happened, even if it cannot be
>>>completely reached. Every
>>>person will doubt what the
>>>other has said, because they
>>>saw their side with their own
>>>eyes. Their perspectives
>>>distort the truth, but the
>>>truth is still there. Every
>>>person distorts it in their
>>>own way.
>>>Tompkins conclusion is
>>>relatively unclear to me, but
>>>I do believe that I disagree.
>>
>>You are basically saying what I tried to
>>say in my reponse. I liked the
>>comparison to the car accident scenario,
>>it helps to make the idea more clear.
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>The accident scenario was most
>definitely a help to understand what
>Tompkins was trying to explain but I do
>believe that the truth is out there but
>there is different perspectives of the
>truth

I agree that there are different perspectives of the truth, but just because it is a persons perspective does not make it a true perspective. If there is one truth to a situation, and each person is entitled to their own opinions and perspectives, there will always be contradicting perspectives. Both of them can't be right. Perspectives will always distort reality to one extent or another, but perspectives do not change reality. It cannot be changed, only interpreted differently.