lancek4 wrote:Some would say: that is a contradiction.
True!
A 'contradiction' is a matter of Perspective (or lack thereof).
Within 'truth is' is an assumption of human potential defined along particular lines.
All assumptions are 'within' Truth! There is no 'without'.
The notions of 'potential' and 'probability' is another way of declaring one's lack of vision, of Perspective. Every moment of existence, exists Now! There is or there ain't, there is no 'probability' other than as our own inherent limitations. All Perspectives (us) are unique and necessarily limited in 'scope'.
A cloud is, at the same moment, both dark and cold and bright and warm. How?
Ponder the great winter cloud; it covers the sky, is cold, dark, slightly threatening...
Now imagine that you are in an airplane, rising through the cloud.
From the cold darkness into the cloud. It gets a bit brighter and brighter until you burst through the top side!
It is breathtaking how blue the sky above, the sun dazzling in it's brilliant glare as is the top side of our cloud! Brilliant white with not a shadow to give hint of it's other side, or the vast shades of 'grey' in between.
Now imagine that there are billions and trillions of folks (Perspectives) all around and throughout the cloud, at the same moment!
If asked to describe the cloud, all Perspectives would describe that which he uniquely perceives; one declares the cloud dark and cold, another would declare it's brilliance,. one a particular shade of grey, another doesn't perceive a cloud at all, and so forth.
They all describe One Cloud! One Reality!
No Perspective is 'wrong', yet, ignorantly, we do fight so over who is 'right', while everyone else is 'wrong'.
Yet the complete cloud is fully defined, described, by the sum total of all Perspectives!
All these different Perspectives perceiving the same One Reality!
In order for there to be a knowing of such 'truth is', a concordant 'doubt' must exist: thus togther they must be True - yet this too must be doubted.
Perhaps you have missed the critically updated definition of 'knowledge' (that 'settles' epistemology rather nicely);
"Knowledge is that which is perceived!"
All inclusive! Simple!
Whether you believe everything or doubt everything, one eventually finds the same Truth!
'Thought' is a feature of Reality, thus 'thoughts' (of anything... flying pigs, contradictions...) are Real! 'Thoughts' are a real feature of Reality!
Truth is non falsifiable. The foundation of 'classical science' has been replaced by quantum physics! There is no 'independent observer' possible...
Hence the contradiction which find itself resolved by an Absolute -
"Every kind of partial and transitory disequilibrium
("contradiction") must perforce contribute towards the great equilibrium of the whole.." - Rene' Guenon
which cannot be except in reflection of the potential for relativity.
Everything is relative to everything else!
The only way that anything can be completely defined is to include context. Ex; red.. is not blue.
So, the complete definition of anything, must, perforce, include the entire Universe!
One!
Hence the asserted position of 'god': the Absolute Object at which we cease to be human, a purpose by which I am negated for my own comfort.
No idea what you mean.
