RE: Why am I me?
October 20, 2012 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2012 at 11:33 am by Comprehender.)
(October 16, 2012 at 10:40 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: No truth relates to anything knowable or unknowable. Any proposition is either true or untrue. Simple logic really.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that there is no truth that is unknowable.
Do you know exactly where the sun is, that is where the universe in which our sun is, is? Yet, you do know that the sun exists, do you not?
I consider truth to be that which causes influence. IE: The belief in Santa inspires children to behave good & put out milk & cookies Christmas Eve. A belief, even if it is not based in truth, can have true influence. To discover the cause of influence, it can be helpful to consider various perspectives that would have inspired such an influence.
(October 16, 2012 at 11:09 am)whateverist Wrote: The truth of any proposition is dependent on its correspondence to objective reality. Of course propositions, true or otherwise, are only meaningful for subjects .. which have only ever been observed in bodies, which again are objects.(Pulling out 2 cents and some fuzz for you.)
"Truth" is only a meaningful category for subjects. As subjects who create a mental description of the world, we have reason to care where that description fits or falls short. Truth is all about the fit.
That'll be two cents please.
I agree and that was well worth the cost.
Einstein helped us realize this idea of relativity, although we have more to understand. I still struggle with understanding how space and time would apply or not if the sun were somehow wiped from our solar system.
Going back to "why am I me" - you could also ask, who is the "I" we refer to... is it the cells that regenerate in my body ever 7 years or so - or is it my thoughts... what? Also, how "am" I able to exist? My parents had intercourse, as did their parents - on & on... maybe there was some evolution... going back in time further - how did this earth come to exist? Where is this earth - in the solar system - in the universe - but where is the universe?
