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I and Thou includes includes the following potent passage in his section on developmental psychology:
In the beginning is the relation--as a category of being, as readiness, as a form that reaches out to be filled, as a model of the soul, the a priori of relation; the innate YouIn the relationships through which we live, the innate You is realized ( Read more... )

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I talked to Melanie tonight. Towards the end of our conversation--which was, in my opinion, a rich one--the topic turned to the fact that we don't really know much about each others' lives now. It's been over two years since we were housemates. Our lifestyles are different, our outlooks are different, the way we relate to other people is ( Read more... )

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Wikipedia article:
Consensus Theory of Truth

"The consensus theory, invented by Charles Sanders Peirce sees truth as something agreed upon by some specified group, such as all competent investigators. " (from Wikipedia, "Truth"Like pragmatism, upon first reading this definition, my first reaction was one of immediate rejection, but upon second and ( Read more... )