Some Philosophical Thought
Feb. 16th, 2004 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sathorFeel free to state what you feel about it, I'm just trying to sort out my garbled thought patterns.
Beyond what one can sense and see with one's own eyes is a darkened void filled with shades of what can be if one reaches them with one's senses. It's as if a tiny filled-in circle of light represents what one can know at a time, and the rest is a dark shoebox filled with the rest of existence, in waiting, possibly not even in existence. How can one know if anything beyond what he currently knows exists if he cannot sense it? He may have sensed it at a time, but even so, how is that proof of anything? I may have sensed a vehicle parked outside of my house, but the next time I walk outside it may not be there any longer. If this is so, how can one know anything?
Trees may last for hundreds of years, Mountains may last centuries, millennia, but in time all things die and decay, changing the external world. Constant change occurs, miniscule and large, every moment of time. To say that one knows anything is creating an obvious lie, as one only knows as much as they can sense at a time with their own senses, to know anything more is to make assumptions, and though assumptions can be correct, maybe many times are correct, maybe ninety-nine percent of the time correct - but they can be wrong. That alone is proof enough that our certainty of the external world is taking a very large thing for granted.
To take it further, even one's own senses can be fooled, proving that the external world itself creates how we sense, therefore defining how we feel and think. So, a world that can be assumed and can be fake, as stated before, now defines beings that can create, destroy and think for themselves. So, even as one may only know what they can sense at a time, even these senses can be fooled, therefore possibly creating a false external and internal world for the person, though maybe not often, or even ever.
I do not try to state that the whole external world and internal worlds are exactly the same, that the person creates his or her world, as the solipsists do. What I try to state is that there is an external world, an objective world in a sense, but no being can see the objective world for exactly as it is, they see their own version. To continue, they only see part of that version at a time, as there are still things left unseen, to be seen and assumptions made of what has been seen. So in reality none of us truly know what the external world is, we only know what our internal worlds allow us to know and understand and interpret. The obvious conclusion of this is that there is no ultimate truth, for truth itself does not exist - only versions of a truth thought to exist.
Beyond what one can sense and see with one's own eyes is a darkened void filled with shades of what can be if one reaches them with one's senses. It's as if a tiny filled-in circle of light represents what one can know at a time, and the rest is a dark shoebox filled with the rest of existence, in waiting, possibly not even in existence. How can one know if anything beyond what he currently knows exists if he cannot sense it? He may have sensed it at a time, but even so, how is that proof of anything? I may have sensed a vehicle parked outside of my house, but the next time I walk outside it may not be there any longer. If this is so, how can one know anything?
Trees may last for hundreds of years, Mountains may last centuries, millennia, but in time all things die and decay, changing the external world. Constant change occurs, miniscule and large, every moment of time. To say that one knows anything is creating an obvious lie, as one only knows as much as they can sense at a time with their own senses, to know anything more is to make assumptions, and though assumptions can be correct, maybe many times are correct, maybe ninety-nine percent of the time correct - but they can be wrong. That alone is proof enough that our certainty of the external world is taking a very large thing for granted.
To take it further, even one's own senses can be fooled, proving that the external world itself creates how we sense, therefore defining how we feel and think. So, a world that can be assumed and can be fake, as stated before, now defines beings that can create, destroy and think for themselves. So, even as one may only know what they can sense at a time, even these senses can be fooled, therefore possibly creating a false external and internal world for the person, though maybe not often, or even ever.
I do not try to state that the whole external world and internal worlds are exactly the same, that the person creates his or her world, as the solipsists do. What I try to state is that there is an external world, an objective world in a sense, but no being can see the objective world for exactly as it is, they see their own version. To continue, they only see part of that version at a time, as there are still things left unseen, to be seen and assumptions made of what has been seen. So in reality none of us truly know what the external world is, we only know what our internal worlds allow us to know and understand and interpret. The obvious conclusion of this is that there is no ultimate truth, for truth itself does not exist - only versions of a truth thought to exist.
