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Response to Arcanus on Metaphysical Naturalism
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RE: Response to Arcanus on Metaphysical Naturalism
(March 27, 2010 at 4:45 am)RedFish Wrote: Knowledge itself may prove meaningless, but I believe our searching for it is what is important, and meaningful. As individuals, and as a species. Unnatural is not something we can't know, just something we don't know. Yet.

Meaning is attributed subjectively... the mass that I declare a "wall" is to the tiny neutrino no such thing. It may not even be what I call a wall, I may have misattributed my description of what a "wall" is to the apparent mass... but that doesn't make me right in my definition Tongue

As for the last sentence... unnatural might in fact describe something we can't now... but just what is 'unnatural' anyway? Smile

I guess Arcanus has been busy? Undecided
(March 27, 2010 at 10:24 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Oh why the insistance on meaning?
Things just happen.

It wouldn't be a 'thing' if we didn't define it as such Smile Existence precedes our interpretations of it, after all Smile
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Response to Arcanus on Metaphysical Naturalism
But you cannot pass through the wall. I've tried. We're ultimately limited by the form we have. Relative to me, the wall is solid. I'll work with that assumption until proven wrong.
''As for the last sentence... unnatural might in fact describe something we can't now... but just what is 'unnatural' anyway?''
We don't know, yet


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I had to put that in , it is so cool!
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