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Poll: Solipsism, TRUE or FALSE?
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Is the self all that can be known to exist?
#21
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
Infinity is not a number.
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#22
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
(November 17, 2016 at 3:17 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Infinity is not a number.
The self is not a thing.

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#23
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
(November 17, 2016 at 3:09 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: It's a categorically false viewpoint.

Ironically, that is exactly why dialetheism would be true.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#24
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
(November 17, 2016 at 3:18 pm)Tangra Wrote:
(November 17, 2016 at 3:17 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Infinity is not a number.
The self is not a thing.

Yes it is.
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#25
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
(November 17, 2016 at 3:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
(November 17, 2016 at 3:09 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: It's a categorically false viewpoint.

Ironically, that is exactly why dialetheism would be true.

Except that it can't be.
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#26
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
Right......and again, that would be why it was true.  I don't think you appreciate this one, lol.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#27
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
It can't be true by virtue of being false.
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#28
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
That's -exactly- what dialetheism is.  Paradox.  A statement simultaneously true and false.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#29
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
*Looks up dialetheism*


Google Wrote:Dialetheism is the view that there are dialetheias.

Thanks, Google, that really helps.
I am John Cena's hip-hop album.
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#30
RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
Quote:Dialetheism is the view that there are dialetheias. One can define a contradiction as a couple of sentences, one of which is the negation of the other, or as a conjunction of such sentences. Therefore, dialetheism amounts to the claim that there are true contradictions.

This is an example of the fallacy of equivocation.

A statement can't be simultaneously true and false, if you think otherwise you're equivocating.

Source:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dialetheism/
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