What if Judas didn't do it?

[The Grand Nudger]

The difference between the poe and the poc is whether there is a reality per se.  It's that simple.  If there isn't - if we assert the poc...then we lose coherent use of concepts grounded in a reality per se.  We lose reality.  We lose facts.  We lose objectivity.  We lose valid logical inference.  There is no such thing.  Conceptually, there's nothing wrong with affirming the poc and denying the poe so long as we're careful to avoid employing terms and concepts and systems which would depend on that which we've rejected.

The poc leads to the view that you have no identity because identity is a part of reality per se. What you are, and what you aren't. These are claims to facts. Lets use me as the grand nudger. There is no reality, there is..instead, whatever I happen to apprehend (however I do it in this realityless existence). You think you're human. I think you're a cat. Guess what. You're a cat. You might think "but I'm clearly a human, there is a demonstrable difference between me and a cat. You can see that we have disparate biology!" No you don't. Biology and discrete sets are a part of reality per se. There is no -real- difference..and even if there seemed to be some superficial difference that convinced you you weren't a cat..I could change that, and change your perception, at a whim.

No objective fact -of anything- can be grounded in fundamentally subjective metaphysics. There can't even be such a thing as true or false. It is meaningless to discuss these things, having already rejected any reality per se in favor of the primacy of consciousness, of subjectivity. IMO, theists who screw the pooch on this one do so because they don't realize that a single source of subjectivity is being laundered as though it's single allegedly almighty source made it objectivity.

Here's an even more amusing problem that arises from affirming the poc and rejecting the poe. God loses his omniscience. God knows nothing. God can know nothing. There is nothing to know.