On 10/22/2014 1:33 AM, Peter Sas wrote:
Hi guys,
Here is a blog piece I wrote about nothing as the ultimate source of being:
http://critique-of-pure-interest.blogspot.nl/2014/09/why-is-there-something-rather-than.html
I think you are too quick here:
"It seems the subjective interpretation can be ruled out from the start. Logic may be just
subjective, being no more than the inherent structure of human thought. But as such it
cannot declare the necessity of existence. It is absurd and indeed circular to say that
there must be being since we cannot imagine it otherwise. The circularity of such a
proposal follows from the fact that we ourselves, after all, are part of being, so on this
proposal we exist because we cannot imagine ourselves as not existing. In such a scenario,
then, we would be causa sui, since we would have imagined or thought ourselves into
existence. But this is plainly absurd."
First, we can imagine ourselves as not existing. Second, what you call the "subjective
interpretation" I would take to be the anthropic interpretation: We can only ponder this
question if we exist, so we necessarily find being.
Brent
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