Monday, April 17, 2006
Badiou lectures on truth.
Modern philosophy is a criticism of truth as adequation. Truth is not limited to the form of judgment. Heidegger suggests that it is a historic destiny. I will start from the following idea: Truth is first of all something new. What transmits, what repeats, we shall call knowledge. Distinguishing truth from knowledge is essential. It is a distinction already made in the work of Kant, between reason and understanding, and it is as you know a capital distinction for Heidegger, who distinguishes truth as aletheia, and understanding as cognition, science, techne. Aletheia is always properly a beginning. Techne is always a continuation, an application, a repetition. It is the reason why Heidegger says that the poet of truth is always the poet of a sort of morning of the world. I quote Heidegger: 'The poet always speaks as if the being was expressed for the first time.' If all truth is something new, what is the essential philosophic problem pertaining to truth?With followup questions from Agamben through Zizek. ¶ 8:50 AM
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"Nothing permits us to say 'Here begins the truth.' A wager will have to be made. This is why the truth begins with an axiom of truth. It begins with a decision, a decision to say that the event has taken place. The fact that the event is undecidable imposes the constraint that the subject of the event must appear. Such a subject is constituted by a sentence in the form of a wager: this sentence is as follows. 'This has taken place, which I can neither calculate nor demonstrate, but to which I shall be faithful.'"
This sounds as though one is calling the top or bottom of a market, which from time series analysis one cannot do until after the fact.
But the time series itself is what you can say something true about; the rest is a kind of talking head bloviation.
This sounds as though one is calling the top or bottom of a market, which from time series analysis one cannot do until after the fact.
But the time series itself is what you can say something true about; the rest is a kind of talking head bloviation.
That's why you don't find many philsophers running mutual funds, and instead depend on grants and scholarships.
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