Re: Absolute relativism

2018-02-23 Thread Francesco D'Isa
Dear John, thank you for reading my text! > ​> ​ >> Nagarjuna’s thought is based on the idea that nothing exists >> intrinsically. Everything exists only relationship to something else; > > > ​ > Well, if there were only one object in the universe it would be > meaningless to say that object had

Re: Absolute relativism

2018-02-23 Thread Francesco D'Isa
On Friday, February 23, 2018 at 3:01:08 PM UTC+1, telmo_menezes wrote: > > I find it interesting that you resort to an image. I suspect that what you > are trying to communicate cannot be fully communicated with language. That > is perhaps what art is for? > > Well, images and art are a languag

Re: Absolute relativism

2018-02-23 Thread John Clark
Francesco D'Isa wrote in: https://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/DIsa_Nothing_is_fundamental.pdf ​> ​ > Nagarjuna’s thought is based on the idea that nothing exists > intrinsically. Everything exists only relationship to something else; ​ Well, if there were only one object in the univers

Re: Absolute relativism

2018-02-23 Thread Telmo Menezes
I find it interesting that you resort to an image. I suspect that what you are trying to communicate cannot be fully communicated with language. That is perhaps what art is for? Cheers Telmo. On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Francesco D'Isa wrote: > Hello Telmo, thank you very much for welcomin

Re: Absolute relativism

2018-02-21 Thread Francesco D'Isa
Hello Telmo, thank you very much for welcoming and reading! I'm very glad you enjoyed the text and for your comment on it. Of course that's the hardest part. I agree that the argument in §6 is circular someway, but I'd tell that its circularity is broken by its opening to an infinite regress, b

Re: Absolute relativism

2018-02-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hello Francesco, Welcome to the group! I like your essay and essentially agree with what you say. My only problem is with your treatment of the principle of non-contradition. I feel that your reasoning there becomes circular: all truths are relative, so the principle of non-contradition is also r