Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Bardock: Questioning things is good. Questioning EVERYTHING is rather silly.Why do I need to question something as obvious as the sun? Why does it matter? People just get into it to make themselves seem more intelligent
-AC
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Bardock ready to put on your guns... lol..
I think TH Huxley put it best, so forgive me for quoting him...
"A little cosideration will show this formula to be full of snares and verbal entanglements. In the first place, the "therefore" has no business there. The "I am" is assumed in the "I think," which is simply another way of saying "I am thinking." And in the second place, "I think" is not one simple proposition, but three distinct assertions rolled into one. The first of these is "something called I exists"; the second is "something called thought exists"; and the third is "the thought is the result of the action of the I". Now it will be obvious to you that the only one of these three propositions which can stand the Cartesian test of certainty is the second."
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Sun sets are irrelevant.The Sun doesn't set or rise purely because it doesn't move.
There are two genders, male and female. You are born one of these.
Don't see the difficulty here. You'll be a female in 50 years time (if you're here) unless you have a sex change. Even still, you were born a female.
Just because there are little absolute truths, doesn't mean everything is observation. Truth's don't lessen with time. The fact that there is a Sun won't demean as time goes on.
-AC
Ah, you are wrong there. Some people are born unisex. A disturbing thought, but yes...
Bardock: Questioning things is good. Questioning EVERYTHING is rather silly.
This is the life of the true philosopher. Question everything, make sense of nothing.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Bardock: Questioning things is good. Questioning EVERYTHING is rather silly.Why do I need to question something as obvious as the sun? Why does it matter? People just get into it to make themselves seem more intelligent
-AC
You jujst need to keep in kmind that it might not be that obvious.....you see I don't question the sun, beliving there is one and all that stuff works for me. But if you one day wake up and you are a green bug eyed alien don't say I didn'T warn you ✅
Yes that would be rather comedic.
Outside of pseudo-intellectual (and impossible) theories though, that's not gonna happen.
I agree that everyone perceiving reality different is a tremendous theory, however it's not provable or disprovable really. So it's a bit smart-assed to sit there saying "It's subjective" all the time.
It's not. If a lamppost is painted green, you can 99.999999% chance, see that it's green too. If you say, "Nah it's black", then you're being stupid.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Yes that would be rather comedic.Outside of pseudo-intellectual (and impossible) theories though, that's not gonna happen.
I agree that everyone perceiving reality different is a tremendous theory, however it's not provable or disprovable really. So it's a bit smart-assed to sit there saying "It's subjective" all the time.
It's not. If a lamppost is painted green, you can 99.999999% chance, see that it's green too. If you say, "Nah it's black", then you're being stupid.
-AC
Well I agree with you.....but whats so wrong aboot considering it?
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Nothing, I mentioned it ages ago, back when I first joined. I encourage it.Just gets a bit ridiculous when people take it as face value.
Like when Lil said "You can't prove I'm a female" or something to that effect. It's just overly pretentious.
-AC
Again I agree with you...its not on my daily thoughts, just sometimes when I am talking on a Philosophy forum.....you know
Cogito ergo sum
it is the conclusion made by De Cart
i think he has been thinking about the perception, and differences between what we see and what the reality is
also about what has been mentioned in matrix, that ppl can be just be brains in the word of illusion
and the what he meant (IMHO) is that if we think we gotta exist, coz otherwise we wouldn't be able to ask ourselves if we do exist.