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Critical rationalism

http://www.geocities.com/criticalrationalist/#definition The truth is either one out there or in here that is in consciousness itself. The curiosity is that consciousness and conscience appear to be parallels. Why? Red is red to you and me provided that you or they are not colour blind. Red being a constant that remains for all intents and purposes an unchangeable entity. The colour red to the colour blind needs to be checked with a person who is not colour blind especially at a set of traffic lights or remembered as always being at the top or the tree. Got that? Trust that Red is Red is not under the Bed or on the Bed or in the Bed in the sense that it also contains a meta value as a metaphor with an above meaning sense expression that can be expanded to the nth dimension of your available power to imagine. To subtract from this as an infinite extension of the constant expression I.E. Is the red you see the red that I see to? Yes it is if we agree, No it is not if we do not agree. Simple really how we can all as humans no matter what language, colour or creed it is that we use agree on this simple childish notion at its elemental level of expression but when used at the metaphorical level interpretation changes according to cultural background. Complexity initialises contempt and leads to confusion if not understood from the perspective of the author and his intension to communicate the idea of Red in/on/under/over the bed. Language and agreement over terms of expression would fail us all if the word and its intended meaning were not agreed to at the elemental level. The metaphorical level of interpretation then is agreed to within a specific social context but not across or between separate and distinctly different cultures that remain uninformed about the meaning of the term within the culture transporting the expression into the aether to be traded freely in speech text and picture.

The usage of the term, its history then becomes important from first to final expression. Translation and interpretation of the terms meaning is vital or communication fails to transform the listener into a hearer and thus a doer of the word. This is a personal interpretation, an individual reading of the term critical rationalist based upon a very limited human vision. It is a term that needs much research in order for it to be throughly understood. This example only serves to illustrate the problems involved with any form of logical rational approach.