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Clever people of Hatrack? People who have Xenocide at their immediate disposal? Is it possible one of you could find for me the exact quotation when Han Fei-Tzu is telling Qing-Jao about Life of Human. He says something about it being "universally true but specifically false", and it's really irritating me.
Anyone?
--a very neurotic Jen
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quote:We are using two different meanings of the words truth and belief. You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality -- to whether it literally depicts a real event in the real world. Your inner sense of truth responds to the story's causality -- to whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions, the way the gods work their will among human beings.
Qing-jao thought for only a moment, then nodded her understanding. "So the Life of Human may be universally true, but specifically false."
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