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Originally Posted by TESLACOIL
i find it so easy to believe in nothing for all eternity..that would make so much sense
apart from the fact im here !....surely all i am and all i see is a something ?
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Right, apart from that fact, it would "make sense." But of course we cannot escape that "apart" because it would not make sense-- how can something make sense if there is nothing there to make sense of it?
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3 i find it almost impossible to belive all we see is all there is (a universe so tiny & so young...thats just plain daft)
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The universe we can describe is contingent on our ability to see it in some way, for how do we describe what we have no knowledge of? So we simply define "universe" to mean what we can gain knowledge about, and the issue of "is there anything we can gain no knowledge of" disappears in a flash of careful word usage. This does leave the
philosophical question of, what is the ontological status of things we need to postulate to understand what we do see? That one has been debated for eons.