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Our discussion on Thursday focused on Dennet's use of the skyhook vs. crane methods of categorizing information.  The most interesting part of the discussion for me was when we attempted to place Truth and truth into the system.  Truth is the fundamentalist ideal, it is the perfect template that all earthly believers aspire to but can never fully reach.  truth, by contrast, is the non-fundamentalist ideal that is readily achievable on Earth because it is wholly based on our own subjective nature.  I believe that Truth is the skyhook while truth is crane.  Truth is based upon an entirely independent set of objective values and simply cannot be built from a foundation on our world, it requires anchoring in a whole other realm.  Meanwhile, truth is absolutely anchored in our, built from our shared beliefs until it can truly stand.  Yet there is a limit to how far simply extrapolating our beliefs can take us, there is a limit to how high the crane can be built.  That final gap between the limit the of our subjective reasoning and and an unreachable objective goal is the difference between a skyhook and a crane