RE: 8-bit philosophy
October 22, 2014 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2014 at 10:35 am by bennyboy.)
(October 21, 2014 at 11:57 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:I think that's a dangerous path to go down, because we're extending a pragmatic face-to-fact assumption (this thing must have a cause) to either an infinite regress, or a cheat: God or a philosophical quantity "X" that performs the paradox-resolving function of God. If we take paradox as essentially binary ("This sentence is false.") then I'd say the truth of PSR will just get sucked into that yin-yang vortex of bullshit: it's right, it's wrong, it's both right and wrong. . . but somehow really neither right nor wrong.(October 21, 2014 at 10:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: But what can I say other than that in my experience everything has something else underlying it?Do you agree with the principle of sufficient reason?
Or, in short, "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"
But that doesn't stop me from looking at QM particles and saying. . . yeah, there's probably something underlying them.