RE: Necessary Truths Exist
October 31, 2013 at 8:31 am
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2013 at 8:36 am by MindForgedManacle.)
You're using the Principle of Sufficient Reason, right? Perhaps you should read up on some of the devastating problems with it, especially Hume's criticism. The online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a good article on it.
Not to come off as a bit of an asshole, but if you're going to be posting arguments you didn't make and/or using concepts (the PSR) without specifying what they are, it's a bit less likely people will be likely to respond.
As for your argument, where to start? P3 is false by definition. Reality refers to EVERYTHING that exists. It is thus incoherent to say that "there is something that transcends everything that exists".
Furthermore, truth necessitates the existence of a mind, which is a subset of reality. I truth is the correspondence between a belief or assertion and reality, there can be no truths without minds.
But ALL of that aside (and assuming this argument does not assume the PSR), I can answer this argument with what necessary truths there are:
-The Law of Identity
-The Law of Non-contradiction
-My existence as thinking thing ("I doubt therefore I think, I think therefore I am")
Those first two are self-attesting truths that cannot be denied without first assuming them as true. They aren't "transcendent", they are necessary features of all language and thought. They're very much rooted in reality and the reality we experience.
I thus can reject your argument as unsound.
Not to come off as a bit of an asshole, but if you're going to be posting arguments you didn't make and/or using concepts (the PSR) without specifying what they are, it's a bit less likely people will be likely to respond.
As for your argument, where to start? P3 is false by definition. Reality refers to EVERYTHING that exists. It is thus incoherent to say that "there is something that transcends everything that exists".
Furthermore, truth necessitates the existence of a mind, which is a subset of reality. I truth is the correspondence between a belief or assertion and reality, there can be no truths without minds.
But ALL of that aside (and assuming this argument does not assume the PSR), I can answer this argument with what necessary truths there are:
-The Law of Identity
-The Law of Non-contradiction
-My existence as thinking thing ("I doubt therefore I think, I think therefore I am")
Those first two are self-attesting truths that cannot be denied without first assuming them as true. They aren't "transcendent", they are necessary features of all language and thought. They're very much rooted in reality and the reality we experience.
I thus can reject your argument as unsound.
