Every rational creature (human) follows a code of morality, whether conscious of it or not. If socially impossed morals were replaced by amoralism,...
That's interesting, I don't think I ever was brainwashed by society's morals. As an adolescent I was mostly just confused and frustrated by them, but...
Canute I think you're on the right track in a lot of ways. But the nihilism stems from the false idea that proof of reality is impossible, not that...
Re: Re: can i know something not proven? If keeping your name in your family's will was so important that your family's position was high in your...
What do you mean by "proof is replaced by experience"? Proof and all knowledge is derived from experience. Conciousness is experience, thus its...
Objectivism rejects dualism. Seeks to transcend body/soul dichotomy. Yeah, your view is the popular one right now. I see mysticism as more in the...
Re: Anti-Matter Oh, right yeah. I was being overly simplistic, I don't think matter + antimatter is exactly the same as 1+(-1), because antimatter...
To be concious is to be conscious of something. This correlates to the primacy of existence axiom, "existence exists," and the law of identity axiom...
:) Well of course you can never prove *everything* that is true. In order to know, as you say, "the whole truth", one would have to be omnipotent....
Oh yeah, and you're correct nothing is provable by rationality alone. There is no a-priori knowledge. It's the combination of reason and empirical...
No, actually being certain of uncertainty is a self-contradiction. Objectivist epistemology does hold that certainty is possible, which is one of the...
This was a good post! But, the impossibility of possibility seems possible. Is this why you put the "im" in parentheses? I could say it's possible...
oh, sorry westmorris. I didn't notice you'd put the "I am therefore I think" idea up there already. I would have given you credit for it in this...
lol, what a strange attitude you have. I fail to see what is so "vexing" about the fact that all knowledge merely follows logically from a few axioms...
:) oh, i've been wanting to do this, but haven't had an oppurtunity yet.
My mother who is a psychologist tried to explain this to me once, and according to her "unsconciousness" is actually considered a form of...
I'm defining "faith" as "belief in a thing without or contrary to valid evidence." Like I said, I think knowledge and certainty are possible in a...
This is the problem I was starting to run into when I said that still "I am" when I'm unconcious. I stick by this hypothesis though, because when I...
Yeah, that's the funny thing. Anything that follows logically from something else could be called "redundant", but that doesn't invalidate it. Say...
Oh, no, we can't know something without evidence. Faith isn't knowledge, it's an epistemelogical package deal that smuggles potential falsehoods in...
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