RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
November 17, 2016 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 4:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You can respond any way you like, but it won't be a valid response to dialetheism in a vacuum. Look, I understand that the notion of consistency is important to you. But you cant respond to an inconsistency by stating that no inconsistency can exist because inconsistency can't exist. Invoking the principle of noncontradiction in this manner is question begging -even if it's accurate.
It;s not about being right all the time ham, it's about getting it right for the right reasons.
Now, back to the self, and how dialetheism might be at play in any self referential statement -about- the self. It may be true, that no self exists. Difficult to swallow, since, presumably, it's the self answering the question "do I exist" or "does self exist". How could the self simultaneously not exist, and ask..let alone answer...the question?
(illusions, Ham, all illusions....I don;t think you're going to get very far by insisting that, as I mentioned before...now we have to worry that -any- logical statement in natural language is an illusion, not just the ones whose implications we don;t like. Perhaps the cogito is the illusion, for example. Maybe you should close that can of worms, eh?)
It;s not about being right all the time ham, it's about getting it right for the right reasons.
Now, back to the self, and how dialetheism might be at play in any self referential statement -about- the self. It may be true, that no self exists. Difficult to swallow, since, presumably, it's the self answering the question "do I exist" or "does self exist". How could the self simultaneously not exist, and ask..let alone answer...the question?
(illusions, Ham, all illusions....I don;t think you're going to get very far by insisting that, as I mentioned before...now we have to worry that -any- logical statement in natural language is an illusion, not just the ones whose implications we don;t like. Perhaps the cogito is the illusion, for example. Maybe you should close that can of worms, eh?)
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