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"Old Father's Quote #3. You should not kill yourself in your search for the meaning of life. (2009-05-31)" How I Understand Things. The Logic of Existence Great Grandfather's knowledge, life, in of itself has no meaning, it is not animate. A life's meaning is produced by those who lived i...

"Old Father's Quote #4. Words, once spoken, are cast in stone. They last at least a lifetime. (2010-01-09). How I Understand Things. The logic of Existence

Also, have you not yet noticed how much you are 'trying to' defend 'your own position/s', here? Yes, and that's the cosmic joke. There is no position to defend, except delusion, and then simultaneously fights to defend itself from the very delusion it's trying to escape from. The butt of the joke i...

Welcome IN. Thank you I for one am very interested in reading your understanding on the logic of existence. It is available https://a.co/d/8YleUAF Do I have this correct 'us', here, in this forum have to pay you money, so that you can then test 'your understanding' on this forum? [/quote] Ten years...

Fairy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 25, 2025 12:08 pm

Welcome IN.

Thank you

I for one am very interested in reading your understanding on the logic of existence.

It is available https://a.co/d/8YleUAF

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Depends on what you might suppose the purpose of philosophy is. Isaiah Berlin said that philosophy is primarily a study of any and all questions where we haven't yet decided how to determine what a correct answer would look like. Once we establish a method for answering any sort of question, or at ...

"Old Father's Quote #3. You should not kill yourself in your search for the meaning of life. (2009-05-31)" How I Understand Things. The Logic of Existence

"Old Father's Quote #2. The two fundamental errors of human beings are that we think we are clever, and we think we have an impact on things. We are not, and we do not. (2009-01-01)" How I understand Things. The Logic of Existence

There's another angle, though. Suppose the problems you mention can't be solved and are built into man's nature. If philosophy is the activity that brings about this revelation, then it is not a problem solving activity but a liberation from such irresolvable problems. When this world is properly u...

I think philosophy is just a tool. And for some people, it’s very useful, but for others, philosophy is way too deep for their shallow minds to grasp. Humans are into the small talk mostly, too preoccupied by the size of their ego’s. Some people prefer to swim in the familiarity of the shallows, ra...

Maia wrote: ↑Tue Nov 25, 2025 12:38 pm Perhaps philosophy alone can't be the solution.

Perhaps, but this does not negate my concluding statement.

Consider two historical facts: 1. The study of philosophy is at least 2,600 years old. Re: Thales of Miletus (born c. 625 BCE, Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha, c. 525 BCE), Confucius (born 551 BCE). 2. For more than 2,600 years humanity has failed to solve their fundamental problems: World peace, the era...

"Old Father's Quote #1. You can screw with the Laws of Man. If you are clever, you can get away with it - at least sometimes. If you try to screw with the Laws of Nature you end up screwing yourself. (2008-03-14)" How I Understand Things. The Logic of Existence

A semi-retired steel plant manager and metallurgical engineer with a master's degree in engineering management, conferred in 1996 by the University of Pretoria (South Africa). My enquiry started while working towards my master's, commencing by questioning some long-accepted knowledge and dogma - try...