There either are objective truths about reality,
or there aren't objective truths about reality.
Except, if there aren't objective truths about reality -
that itself would be an objective truth about reality.
Thus, to claim there are no objective truths about reality,
would be self contradicting i.e. not possible.
Thus, there are objective truths about reality.
James said (perhaps to iam's chagrin) one way to reveal truth,
was to present the lack of any possible alternative.
fairy wrote:this known knows nothing
Knowledge does not know.
Knowers know.
But awareness is something,
and awareness knows something.
Thus, something is known.
Ben JS wrote:Awareness exists.
It can verify itself.
The very attempt to verify it,
verifies it.
If anything is known,
it is known.
And it is known.
Nothing is the absence of something.
As established, awareness is something.
To know, means to be aware of the known.
Thus, nothing does not know.
Furthermore, something cannot connect to nothing.
Thus, nothing cannot be known -
as awareness cannot connect to it.
fairy wrote:Philosophy is all about thought.
Philosophy is all about truth,
and it doesn't stop at only thought.
Ben JS wrote:When we’re young, odds are, we can read the text within a book with no problems. The text is clear and has focus. As we get older, our eyes degenerate and when we look at the same book, the words aren’t clear any more. They’ve lost focus.
Because we understand the problem isn’t shared by other people, the problem isn’t with the book. The book is constant, but our awareness - our ability to connect with ‘reality’- is altered. Therefore, I conclude that our awareness is subject, but there’s something we connect to, that isn’t changing.
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But I get the sense, you're trying to move the goalposts.
Perhaps you want the contents of your claim to be true,
before you attempted to establish whether it is true.
