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Originally Posted by pbradley
No ambiguity, you say? Perhaps you can clarify all this for me.
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I'll debate what I can.
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Originally Posted by pbradley
You don't see any peculiarity in claiming there is an indefinite truth that is metaphysically separate from definite truth? Wouldn't an indefinite truth be no truth at all?
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Certain things are true, certain things are not. As long as we're not talking in matters of opinion, there is absolutely a definite truth.
Now, I'm not saying that humans are even half-capable of understanding the grand secrets of the universe. Just because everyone believes something to be true, doesn't necessarily make it true. But there is a constant state of truth that has existed since the beginning of time, and will inevitably outlive time, itself.
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Originally Posted by pbradley
How is it even possible to observe and delineate between entities and observers from outside ourselves as observers? Through logical self-reflection? Is there a mathematical proof or are we resigned to assume it as axiomatic?
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Does your tin foil hat get hot in the summer?
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fact that I know that we've both considered the assumption that no one else is real but ourselves, is more than enough for me to believe in both of our existences.
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Originally Posted by pbradley
If truth is formal proof, how does that relate to facticity in the world? Or, instead, is objective truth only what is a fact in the world? If so, we return to the problem of our own position as observers that obscures what a fact is without being conditioned by observation.
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I completely agree.