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Originally Posted by Nick Treklis  Do you realize every time you make a statement like this you are doing exactly what you say you can't do? Which would be attempting to state an absolute truth.
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there might be absolute truth, but i don't think we can know. i don't think we can know anything for sure,
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Originally Posted by Nick Treklis No, A=A is the law of identity. Meaning a thing is exactly what it is, and nothing else. Even if it turns out what we were seeing previously as an apple is actually an orange does not undermine A=A. The equation always remains the same, it just means that what was previously apple=apple at one time is now orange=orange. Never does it mean apple=orange or orange=apple. |
so the "value' of A has changed, even if what the value really was stayedthe same? like A
orange=A
orange, but through our perception A
orange was an A
apple?
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Originally Posted by Nick Treklis
Your consciousness breaking free from the chains of delusion may not be in your karmic nature.
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i don't think a independent consciousness is possible, but it would be intresting.
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remember "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescirbe to oursleves is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will "if we can not reconcile all opions, then let us endeavour to unite all hearts."-?"to be is to be perceived"-? "‘We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know’-Robert G. Ingersoll