The Philosophy Discussion Forum

"There's been no philosophical schema or proposition offered, that I'm aware of, whose assumptions can't be brought into question." - how is this a metaphysical position? Insofar as philosophy, in the broadest sense, is the attempt to establish what exactly is going on, then surely you can...

Yes, did I misinterpret? I thought you were saying it was self refuting.

Oh absolutely, if what I said was taken as a metaphysical proposition then it would suffer the same fate as other metaphysical propositions and systems - it would be question begging or self-refuting. But it was merely an empirical observation, not a fact, along with a suggestion, not a prescription.

There's been no philosophical schema or proposition offered, that I'm aware of, whose assumptions can't be brought into question. Without firm epistemological or ontological grounding, the true status of anything, and everything, is up in the air. If we say a particular grounding is 'good enough' or...

An example of... nothing?

The problem essentially seems to be that everything is question-begging and nothing is established. The beginning of a solution might be to focus on the nature of this 'nothing' that is established, rather than getting lost in whatever falls under the umbrella of 'everything'. One might then ponder ...