RE: Actual Infinity in Reality?
February 15, 2018 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2018 at 3:18 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(February 15, 2018 at 12:53 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Any true statement is contingent upon the status of it's conditional operants. An "eternal" truth, then..is not a comment on duration of truth, but on the maintained status of it's conditional operants. The modifier has been misapplied.
It's "conditional operants" being existence itself. If no one were around to make truth statements it would still be true that no one would be around to make true statements.
Because the totality of existence itself is eternal, then it is true forever that the totality of existence is eternal.... making it an eternal truth that the totality of existence is eternal....because an eternal truth is something eternally true.
And seen as all objects only change form rather than be destroyed... because ultimately nothing can truly be created or destroyed.... then all things-in-themselves exist eternally. And it is true that EVERYTHING exists eternal. When the true meaning of all things are things-in-themselves.... and things-in-themselves are by definition noumenological and non-contingent.
Then ultimately, since all things are ultimately things-in-themselves/noumenons as opposed to phenomenoa, and they're all eternally true..... Then this makes all truths eternal because the only true things that can be refereed to are (by definition) ultimately noumenons... as phenomenons are merely reflections of them. Ala Plato (without the crazy idea of the noumenal world being the world of ideas.... it's the other way around! Obviously it's The World Of Ideas that is illusory).
Consequently nothing truly is created or destroyed, and There Is No Genuine Or True Change It Only Seems Like There Is .
Ala Parmenides. My ultimately favorite philosopher.
Parmenides is right.... (and when Popper called Einstein Paramendies as an insult.... I think it was a rather poorly chosen insult because I think he's right) but to talk of all truths as if they are non-contignent ultimately ignores what the so-called 'real world' that we live in: i.e. practical reality. And speaking only of eternity and noumenons as real in practical is a very unhelpful form of Greedy Reductionism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy_reductionism