This post is made of lies

[kigs]

You are looking at black marks on an electronic screen. Some people call these words.

Are there levels of truth? If something is slightly false, is it impossible for it to also be true?

You are looking at black marks on an electronic screen. Then, you are telling yourself that they form words. Then, you extract meaning from the organization of these words.

Since words are not symonomous with their meanings in the same way that a picture of an apple is not an apple then, in presenting you with words, I am presenting you with an image which you draw meaning from. As the meaning is not the same as the word, and two seperate messages cannot be the same truth, then I am telling you lies. Further more, you are willingly believing my lies.

All words are made of a little bit of lies, since they are not equal to the truth.

This represents a viewpoint that I have heard.
I think this is a bad viewpoint, but I want more opinions.
What do you think?

Truely,
~Kigs

Comments

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

Words are man-made tools, just like hammers, and can't be lies anymore than hammers can.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

The hammer itself isn't a lie.

The viewpoint states that there is a difference between the hammer, and the word hammer. Then, it claims that the word hammer is a less true representation than the hammer itself.

[skadjer.livejournal.com]

Perhaps more appropriate, the word hammer relates to the hammer itself more to the degree that the hammer itself relates to the nail it was created to drive in, rather than simply being an end-all means to actualize itself.

[dour.livejournal.com]

This is just a rehash of Platonic forms. It's more useful as an insight into how the human mind processes data than as any sort of guide to the nature of reality.

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

The problem, though, is that the word "hammer" never claims to be a hammer. It's just a tool to convey the concept. In that sense, I suppose it would be less "real." But as it never claims to be more than it is, I fail to see how that makes it a lie.