RE: Is there objective Truth?
October 24, 2016 at 4:08 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2016 at 4:15 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
It's asking why existence has the property of existence but existence is not a property. This is why the ontological argument for God fails. It's why imaging the most perfect being and saying "Wouldn't he be more perfect if he had the property of existence?" fails massively... because existence is not a property. Whether something exists is an entirely separate question to what that thing is.
Existence and essence are separate, that's elementary philosophy.
But beyond that there's also the fact that if a thing doesn't exist is it even a thing? I would say in one sense yes and in another sense no. But I tend to say, no. Because the imagination itself and imaginary concepts exist in a sense... it's just not real stuff. It's imaginary stuff. It's figment, ideas, imagings. So that is where I distinguish between reality and existence. This is my metaphysics.
At it's strictest sense I consider existence to refer to the presence of any thing whether real or imaginary as opposed to its absence. And basically when it is entirely absent in all senses... there is not "it". There many be the concept of "it" but here is no "it". If the concept is truly absent then there isn't even the concept of "it". If we are able to conceptualize "it", it may or may not exist but the concept of it in that case is certainly present and does exist otherwise we wouldn't be able to conceptualize it.
In any sense at all though, if you're asking why existence itself is existent, you're talking nonsense.
Existence and essence are separate, that's elementary philosophy.
But beyond that there's also the fact that if a thing doesn't exist is it even a thing? I would say in one sense yes and in another sense no. But I tend to say, no. Because the imagination itself and imaginary concepts exist in a sense... it's just not real stuff. It's imaginary stuff. It's figment, ideas, imagings. So that is where I distinguish between reality and existence. This is my metaphysics.
At it's strictest sense I consider existence to refer to the presence of any thing whether real or imaginary as opposed to its absence. And basically when it is entirely absent in all senses... there is not "it". There many be the concept of "it" but here is no "it". If the concept is truly absent then there isn't even the concept of "it". If we are able to conceptualize "it", it may or may not exist but the concept of it in that case is certainly present and does exist otherwise we wouldn't be able to conceptualize it.
In any sense at all though, if you're asking why existence itself is existent, you're talking nonsense.
