IN SEARCH OF TRUTH
Sir,-The first two talks in the series entitled In Search of Truth have been of such quality that, without waiting to hear the rest, I am writing to suggest that, if you can possibly spare the space, you might print the whole series in successive issues of The Listener. If this is impracticable, perhaps the talks, when completed, could be published in booklet form? , It is not.easy to give such closelyreasoned lectures the critical study which they deserve, while they are being spoken. Speakers run the risk of being misunderstood. For instance, when Professor Forder had finished his talk, I was left with the impression that his view was that the only reality that is "real" can be reduced to mathematical symbols; that if a deity may be postulated at all, He (or it) cannot be any more enlightening than was the Delphic Oracle. The connection was not quite clear to me; so I probably failed to follow this part of the argument. Also, I could not understand how man could use mathematics if there were no Master Mathematician to originate the possibility of mathematics: or did mathematics, like Topsy, "just grow’? If one had Professor Forcder’s lecture in full, in print, one could see where one had not understood him. This may be the case with other listeners besides myself.
H.S.
HAMILTON
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 11
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229IN SEARCH OF TRUTH New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 11
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