(October 31, 2013 at 7:24 am)Rational AKD Wrote:(October 31, 2013 at 6:12 am)FallentoReason Wrote: Nice argument you've got there. I'm trying to conceive of what a "transcendent truth" would be like, because naturally, I only know of apparent truths within the realm of this universe.
For the time being, I think I can agree with you that there's a non-empty set of "transcendent truths", but I don't exactly know what they would contain or what they actually entail in terms of facts/knowledge etc.
I would argue that if we know any necessary transcendent truths, they would have to be in the fundamentals of logic. without logic, we can't come to any conclusion about anything. all sciences are grounded in the use of logic. with this, I can name you 3 necessary truths. the law if identity, the law of non-contradiction, and the law of exclusive middle. there's nothing that shows why these laws are true, but they are almost unanimously accepted by humans as true. if any one of these laws are false, then all logic and reason might as well be thrown out the window along with any hopes of finding truth.
But would logic be the same beyond this universe? If there's something beyond this universe, then maybe logic works in a way that is completely different to the logic in this 4D realm we live in. Maybe transcendential logic allows for something more than just e.g. p and ~p being the only possibilities. Perhaps there's a 3rd logical option - one that we can't conceive of.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle