Tales From the Billabong of *Being*
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In a message dated 9/11/2006 7:57:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Bernx writes:
In a message dated 9/11/2006 1:43:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
peter.king11 at bigpond.com writes:
Jud notes:
In my ontology  in the ontology with which I associate myself
[eliminativism] if I wasn¹t in the world [not born or dead] then things would still exist.
It is simply that [because there would not be an *I*] I would not be here
to be aware of them.
Dear Jud;
If apriori you were known not born or dead you would not know things exist.
It is only aposteriori that you know things exist since you are neither dead
or not born. Ergo, how could you know whether things do or do not exist that
you posit when not born or dead? You have allowed the state (of being) as not
born or dead as apodictic to your aposteriori assertion that you do exist
(i.e., have being or presence) by which you establish that things do exist. In this
manner you assume in your apriori state of not born or dead that things
exist. Accordingly, you have intruded the aposteriori as predicate for the apriori.
That is not logically fair and that is why we needed Kant to arrive to
correct the pure reason that was predicated in the very common sense. If we went by
common sense the world would still be considered flat according to the common
sense of what I empirically see is what exists. It was figured out that the
world exists as round by secondary inferences and not be direct (common) sense.
In a similiar manner it was determined the (spherical) world had an axis mundi
that wobbled and how the Platonic year was arrived at as a 26,000 year cycle..
By these given (apriori) facts both the Mayan calender and our Chalden
figuring it was determined apriori that the precessional cycle would complete itself
by the year 2012. I would have preferred it if your eliminatist hypothesis
held the greater truth since the complementarity of the apriori and the
aposteriori is cause for one’s hair going prematurely grey. The problem for the human
species is that it is a race of foresighters and prognosticators and whether
or not this is achieved magically or by science (or both at once).
Sincerely;
Bernard
(bxbovasso)
(bxbovasso)
