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                           %TRUTH VERSUS COMMITMENT 731214

     In  the  frame of reference of the natural  scientist
the  truth  of  a statement  is  independent  of  persons'
commitment to it. Also,  truth as a category is associated
almost exclusively with abstract statements.

     Real   persons  do  not  live  within  that   limited
framework.  The truth of a statement may be dependent upon
the commitment of persons to it.  This is obvious when the
statement  implicitly or explicitly deals with the  person
making the statement.  The aroused lover who says, "I love
you"   may  be speaking an intentional lie;  or he may  be
stating an already existent truth; or, by speaking, he may
be creating the truth which he speaks --- even though with
the  passage  of  time the created truth may  die  and  be
reborn.

     In  the  same  way,  the scientist  who  acts  toward
reality  as  if it were merely objective  processes,   may
through  his  acts  be  creating the truth  value  of  his
incarnation.  This is not to say that we have the power to
validate all imaginable truth  values by incarnation.   To
date  no historic person has validated his conviction that
he could fly un-aided by  jumping off a  high place.   Not
all   potential  truths  can  be  incarnate  via  personal
commitment  to  them.    At the same time there  are  many
truths which are without  power  until  some  persons  are
united in their incarnation of them.

     The natural scientist's image of truth is limited. To
the  extent  that society  uncritically  internalizes  the
natural  scientist's  image of truth society is  enslaved.
Traditional  science  education tends to  coerce  students
into internalizing the natural scientists' image of truth;
because  that  image  is  not  explicitly  considered  and
compared to various other images of truth.

     A   helpful  major  in  science  would  include   the
examination  of  many of the  fundamental  assumptions  of
scientists, so that the student need not become the victim
of  those assumptions,  and of the attitudes and emotional
responses,   associated  with  them.   We  need  to  avoid
unintentional brainwashing.  Liberal Arts Education should
liberate  students,  rather than enslave them to  dominant
unexamined assumptions.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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