BUS 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kondiaronk
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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything . We"re all sitting in this room, but we all have different interpretations of the situation. Truth doesn"t exist on its own, ideas are not true in of themselves, they are made true by other things. James burke did pull tylenol, but he didn"t pull zomax which killed 14 (tylenol killed 7: yet everyone focuses on how great james burke was. Accounting for the role of perception: we experience things but we also interpret things, life has shaped all of us; we interpret things differently. The way you interpret this class is based on other classes you have taken. According to james, the truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. It becomes true, is made true be events. Its verity is in fact an even a process (badaracco, They have cash value : to make something profitable, useful, meaningful, to people"s lives.