Re: Is there an Ultimate Reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 5:48 am
Linguistically "is" is a verb but not in the philosophical sense which need finer reflection and analysis.Nick_A wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:54 pm V A
You are missing the forest for the trees. You are thinking of the verb is as part of a process that connects subject and predicate. IS doesn't refer to a process.Note "is" is not a predicate, "is" is merely a copula that joined the 'subject' to the 'predicate'.
For example when we say,
This thing is a dog,
the "is" is not significant to reality
but 'what is a dog' is.
'What is a dog' then must be verified and justified with a specific FSK, in this case the most reliable is the scientific FSK.
When you state 'NOW IS' that is meaningless and unrealistic without a realistic predicate.
The "is" is merely a copula and in the above is not connecting to anything realistic.
What is realistic should be
Now is the time after the past and before the future time.
This can be empirically measured.
But when you state 'NOW IS"
if it is to be realistic then it has to be "Now is that"
the question is "what is that?"
But you are unable to verify and justify 'that' within a credible framework and system of knowledge [FSK].
What you are doing is merely throwing words and statements at me which is going no where.
I asked,
Btw, what do you gain for yourself or for humanity in insisting,
"there is an other objective reality beyond phenomena independent of humans"
i.e. a soul or "NOW IS"?
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Why you think there is a soul is using "the idea of a soul" as a consonance to deal with an existential dissonance.
Philosophically, it is correct "is" is just a connector, a copula that connect the subject and the predicate.
You did not explain why this is wrong.
As I had explained above, if you state X is Y, then you need to verify and justify that empirically and philosophically that "X is Y" is real.
Note Protagoras,Heraclitus said:Yet I believe that that source for our existence is the eternal unchanging. Is this a contradiction that cannot be reconciled? How can constant change exist in the eternal unchanging? Yet this is step one in understanding the purpose of our universe.The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change. Nothing endures but change.
I wrote of the seed of the soul rather than the soul. The seed of the soul is like an acorn and the soul is like an oak. We don't know what the soul of Man is anymore than an acorn can know of what an oak tree is. It is a different quality of being. The difference is that the change of an acorn into an oak is a mechanical process while the seed of the soul becoming a soul is a conscious process taking place within NOW
"Man is the measure of all things'
as such 'what is constant' [a thing] is also a measure of man.
Heraclitus would definitely agree with that.
Point is whatever you claimed is real, it must be verifiable and justifiable empirically and philosophically within a credible FSK.
An oak tree is possible to be real because it must be verifiable and justifiable empirically and philosophically within a credible FSK, i.e. biology and science.
This is so easy, i.e. look for a tree that is possibly an oak tree and biologists can proceed to verifiable and justifiable empirically and philosophically to confirm the sighted tree is a real oak tree.
A soul [that survive physical death] is impossible to be real because it be verifiable and justifiable empirically and philosophically within a credible framework and system- FSK.
Give me an idea how would you verify and justify empirically and philosophically the existence of the soul as real within which FSK?
You avoid my question many times, I'll ask again, the response is critical;
I asked,
Btw, what do you gain for yourself or for humanity in insisting,
"there is an other objective reality beyond phenomena independent of humans"
i.e. a soul or "NOW IS"?
Answers??