Ex nihilo nihil fit...
- Epoche
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Ex nihilo nihil fit...
I'm a 24 year old male, and philosophy is my second great passion in life, the first one being music. The philosophers I look up to are Nietzsche, Spinoza, Buddha, Sextus Empiricus, Adorno and Lacan.
I believe that science completely depends on decent, systematic philosophical practice, and that epistemology cannot be separated from our ontological state of being. I accept the Buddhist notion of not-self, and I believe that all things are in a constant state of flux. I'd argue that the ten modes of Pyrrhonism are extremely useful for understanding the contextual difference between reality and truth; for that matter, I am so against all sorts humanisms. Ethically, I am a cognitivist; as I observe that nature is ontologically dialectical. I reject the concept of a-priori knowledge, and although I value psychoanalysis a lot, I label myself a philosophical naturalist.
Good to be among you..
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I hope you do that vis-a-vis empirical knowledge, and you accept despite your statement that "I am Andrew or I am not Andrew" is a priori necessarily true.Epoche wrote:I reject the concept of a-priori knowledge
But still... I also hope that you accept that your self, a physical entity, or cognitive entity, testable only by empirical means for existence, is an a priori existing unit, when you think... because if there was no you, there would be nothing to think. Ergo, you must exist (a priori knowledge).
And I also hope that you don't reject space, the three dimensional infinity, which is also a physical entity which can be known to exist without empirical testing, as an a priori knowledge applied to physical entities.
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Thank you, good to be here.Gertie wrote:Welcome Epoche, hope you enjoy your passion for philosophy here. Jump in!
Of courseRenee wrote: I hope you do that vis-a-vis empirical knowledge
Ah, I would kinda say; "nothing exists outside the text"But still... I also hope that you accept that your self, a physical entity, or cognitive entity, testable only by empirical means for existence, is an a priori existing unit, when you think... because if there was no you, there would be nothing to think. Ergo, you must exist (a priori knowledge).
And I also hope that you don't reject space, the three dimensional infinity, which is also a physical entity which can be known to exist without empirical testing, as an a priori knowledge applied to physical entities.
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I actually don't get what you mean. My dumb. (No joke. I don't get the reference, therefore I also don't get the meaning. I am not familiar with the quote; or the context of it; or its connotation. I am completely lost with what you could mean. Please help me out.)Epoche wrote: Ah, I would kinda say; "nothing exists outside the text"
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ex nihilo nihil fit (Inferred from Parmenides' work on Being): from nothing, nothing comes (is made);
flux (from Heraklitos' "panta rhei": all things are in flux, becoming);
epoche (bracketing) is a technique of Husserl's phenomenology: deal with phenomena or essences; put aside events or actualities.
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Hey. Tautologies are necessarily true, but do they comprise knowledge? If knowledge is to be useful, it needs to identify or categorize or predict; and whatever is necessarily true can't be used for any of the above three porpoises.Renee wrote:I hope you do that vis-a-vis empirical knowledge, and you accept despite your statement that "I am Andrew or I am not Andrew" is a priori necessarily true.Epoche wrote:I reject the concept of a-priori knowledge
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