Thoughts to get some discussion started

[TimBurr]

Key philosophical ideas. Feel free to discuss.


Things that I'm pretty sure of:
- Claims can be categorized by the number of axioms needed to be accepted for each statement to be true.

- Any claim of "true knowledge" is impossible, but we can approximate truth with varying degrees of accuracy.

- Ideas that require a lower amount of axioms to be true are more likely to be things "we can truly know." 

- Empirical study should be used to augment reason whenever possible.

- One must understand his or her epistemological bounds before any serious discussion can be had.

- Our ontology will always exist within epistemological bounds, but it's true nature is always outside of what we can know.

- Materialism provides an incomplete model of reality. There are conditions of our experience that have no material basis (see: qualia.)

- All that we can know and describe is phenomena, therefore the things we can know must exist in some relationship with other things that allow for interaction.

- There is a world outside of ourselves and our perception. To argue otherwise is impossible. The use of logic and argumentation necessitates a space outside of yourself where statements can be true or false. This disproves solipsism.

- There must be an inherent truth to the universe, since if there was not, that would itself be an inherent truth.

Things I'm not completely sure of:
- Morality is just a characterization of teleology.

- Everyone might not see the same color green, but we must all precieve similar relationships between colors. This could be formalized to other forms of qualitative perception.

- There must be a first cause, as if it was any other way an infinite amount of will have had to pass before
this very moment. If that first cause is God is impossible to know.

- Idealism is unfalsifiable, and therefore an incomplete model of reality. 

Things only retarded people say:
- "Reality is illusory (not real, simulation, hallucination, etc.)" - this is useless. When we claim that something is fake, it implies an alternative mode of existence or framing that is real. To claim that what all we experience is fake is a meaningless characterization since it cannot, categorically, give an alternative "real." Even if everything is fake (whatever that means), this facade effects us and we have the capacity to understand it on some level. Therefore, it is worthy of our intellectual pursuits.

- (Any philosophical argument) - "Yeah, but you just think that." - Feller, you just think that.

[Confucious Say]

You put "Idealism is unfalsifiable" under "Things I'm not completely sure of" just for me didn't you? <3

[TimBurr]

Not necessarily, more so because I am not confident in my understanding of falsifiability. I am confident idealism is incorrect, but I cannot formalize my argument as to why atm.