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Old 01-15-2011, 01:39 PM   #6 (permalink)
ProggyMan
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Originally Posted by Dotoar View Post
What do you mean with "in a sense"? Under which conditions does 'nothing' exist?
I just mean that what we think of as 'objects' having some innate quality of existence is flawed. So, in a sense, no-thing exists.
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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?
No, I think that you are mixing up the order. Our understanding is what creates the illusion of objects in the first place, when all the really exists is the context. The qualities we assign these objects have no existence apart from the relationships they have to other objects. No dark without light, hot without cold etc.
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Self-contradictory.
How so? I don't think any answers any of us will ever find can really be categorized as true because the very nature of truth defies categorization.
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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'.
True.
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