had a dream where, through a series of internally consistent, utterly convincing logical steps, I was able to prove that I was not dreaming
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We use logic to separate objective reality from what is a product of the mind, but logic itself is a tool brought into existence by the mind
The oldest question in philosophy: can we know anything? Given that all our cognitive tools are like a deck of cards handed by a magician
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That's leaving out the whole component of learning, of education. Of the soul, of the Heart. We can feel things along with know.
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I like Descartes' way. Pick some axioms that are good for you and follow from there. All that you have are your thoughts. True or fake...
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This! We are building on an unknown ground. It may sound unwise but that is the only ground we have
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Some ideas to consider in response to your Sellars-ian/Benacerraf-ian doubts: http://www.peneloperush.id.au/proof-Logical-Realism.pdf …
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We are discriminators. Magician is generator. Eventually we will know something, but inevitably we will know nothing.
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Solipsism is boring, scientific realism more useful. Per Wittgenstein though, it is often obscured via language...why ontology is hard.
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Would have been pretty cool to disprove Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem in your sleep though!
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Cogito ergo, sum
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yea, no. If you like western schools, you have to go before plato/socrates...to the guys they looked up to. Zeno and his Master Parmenides.
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