Is it merely Trivially True?
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allen scult wrote:
>>Michael Eldred wrote:
>>>one has to go back to the originary phenomena. There it can be
>>>seen that the subject/predicate structure breaks down and that the
>>>question, “what?”, let alone the question, “what am I?”, again
>>>becomes malleable, full of mystery.
>>the question ‘what am I?’ never ceased to be full of mystery. why?
>>because I know that I am; but, not what I am.
>An oversimplification:
>How can you know “that” you are without presuming a “what” standing
>behind or inside the “that”?
I can’t. I assume that there is a what. the claim of partial ignorance
(I know that I am; but, not what I am) is a claim that I don’t know
‘which’ what.
>And, it seems to me, that the presumption of substance inevitably
>undermines the mystery, which then remains only a pose.
I don’t believe that substance has been presumed. in any case, the
conclusion reached, that I-2 am a phenomenological reality, doesn’t
involve concluding that I-2 am a substance or a piece of a substance (ie
a thing); although, as previously stated, I-2 am unable to conclude that
I-2 am not generated or produced by some other reality/realities. those
realities might be considered thing-like.
>The only means of actually preserving the mystery in its most
>entertaining form( so we can be sure it’s the real thing) is simply to
>keep to the question: Why is there something rather than nothing?
>Almost every time I remind my introductory class of that question, we
>are able to immediately, for the moment, once again, discover
>philosophy. And then we can go on.
Owen Flanagan opens his _Consciousness Reconsidered_ with this
observation:
“Three of the greates perplexities are these: Why is there something
rather than nothing? How did some of the stuff there is come to be
alive? How did some of the living stuff come to be conscious?”
it is good to have a search-focusing question.
Joe
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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda
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