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What else is there in this universe connecting our being with the world except experiencing?

Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:09 am "we" don't have anything

-Imp

But I thought we had something?!

Also, why is everyone so stuck on 'cogito ergo sum' when it could be 'imagination ergo sum' or 'belief ergo sum' or 'faith ergo sum' or even 'intuition ergo sum'. To me, faith would be the starting point of doubting doubt, as it gives grounds to believe in what is not seen nor heard.

" As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind . As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other...

I think the oracle meant that he was the wisest because he always questions without answering. If the oracle meant what you said he meant, he would have said so. I am sure the oracle was lucid enough in his thinking to have come up with the idea to say what he means. Yes, Socrates in Plato's books ...

Right there you're talking nonsense and going around the bushes with sophistry, avoiding the central issue. The quoted statements are separated, each one expressing complete ideas without any cut (that's word for word). A quote is ALWAYS an extract of a bigger work, in this case a lenghty lecture. ...

I think the oracle meant that he was the wisest because he always questions without answering. If you notice his dialogues, he is constantly questioning without any answering anything except for the dialectic leading to such a conclusion. Thus he 'knows nothing' by questioning everything. These lear...

The mistake we make is to find cognitive / corresponding / causational / correlational relationships between the two parts: "He who cannot lie" and "does not know what the truth is." Nobody knows what the truth is (if you ask Plato, Socrates, and derivatives.) If you can lie, yo...

If we simply see ourselves as parts and indeed important parts of a wholly interdependent universe, then we will end up seeing ourselves as a way to increase the usefulness and goodness of the universe as a whole if not simply those who are a few degrees of separation away. For instance, interdepend...

If anything, in all religions Satan is a bastion of 'be your own god' and 'atheism is the most rational and acceptable.' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Baphomet.png/440px-Baphomet.png The torch of reason above the scapegoat's head is exactly what atheism is and their claim...

Why would belief in God be as ridiculous as Santa?--if that's the point of this article.

If one only knows the truth, one cannot lie. Sure one can. I broke a vase. I know I will get out of being punished for it if I lie and say I did not do it. I know the truth, yet I can utter an untruth. There is not even magic behind this. This is bread and butter of child-rearing. That's when child...

He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is. (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) What? The mistake we make is to find cognitive / corresponding / causational / correlational relationships between the two parts: "He who cannot lie" and "does not know what the truth is." Nobody knows w...

Why do you think some people lie? Because they know it will be considered 'truth'. Hence, truth is prerequisite to lying. If one only knows the truth, one cannot lie. Ergo, lies require truth, and truth requires truth, thus truth is.

Viveka.....you are smarter than this, I get the feeling you are trying to disagree with me, just to disagree with me.......Cartesian coordinates exist if and only if there are lines to form "the grid". The points are strictly structural divisors within the grid as intersecting lines. And?...