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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
I think you missed the point.
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Did I?
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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
[...]nothing 'exists' the way we think of it, it's just the way whatever happens be observing any particular even at any particular time arranges the data it receives. So, in a sense, nothing exists.
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What do you mean with "in a sense"? Under which conditions does 'nothing' exist?
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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
Existence comes only in relationships. Nothing exists independent of its context, its place in space-time and, arguably, the place in space time of it's observer.
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Wouldn't you say that it's exactly the opposite, that
everything exists independent of its context, and that the relationships comes with our understandings of said objects?
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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
I try to detach myself from finding answers to the 'big' questions, it's an enjoyable distraction but I don't think there's any 'true' answers.
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Self-contradictory.
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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
Like you said, truth is about restraint.
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That may be, if you by truth mean '
what is'. But untruth sure is a much bigger restraint, conceptualizing '
what isn't'.