Here is an analogy I use to think about our recognition and use of axioms or basic truths.
In our experience, something is incorporated into our awareness through practice (and my use here is not limited to only the wood-shedding practice of shooting 100 3-pointers a day, but also the sort of practice as opposed to [...]
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Instrumentality and Learning
Posted in existentialism, tagged axiom, axiomatic truth, basic truth, experience, instrumentality, music, practice, truth on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Justification for Creating and Free Will
Posted in God, existentialism, tagged character of God, creation, God, God's justice, justification for creating, Omnibenevolence, omniscience on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Does God need justification for creating a sentient being? If yes, then I can imagine that the justification can only come from God Himself, since everything that exists other than God is necessarily created by God, and so any answer other than God resolves to the absurdity of something that was created without justification that [...]
Ataraxia
Posted in existentialism on December 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ataraxia is the idea that the only thing we are ever really in control of is ourselves. Thus, our inner peace and tranquility is dependent upon our own control of ourselves and disinterestedness to the outside world. It doesn’t propose indifference to the outside world; this isn’t the Buddhist idea of total apathy to the [...]
The Hopes of Hedonism and Contemplation
Posted in God, existentialism, meaning, tagged diversion, fun, life worth living on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Spanish, the word for “fun” is “divertido.” Is all fun diversion from one’s recognition of their existence? There is something markedly different between a person who takes pleasure in something for its immediate sense of entertainment compared to a person who takes pleasure in something for its eternal benefit; the person who spends all [...]
Conjectivity in Application: The Existence of God
Posted in God, existentialism, tagged conjectivity, existence of God, existentialism, God, objectivity, subjectivity on April 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It would help to read my earlier essay, Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Conjectivity first.
Conjectivity in Application: The Existence of God
Atheists, on the face of it, may be more easily swayed by inconclusive evidence for the existence of God than theists who base their belief in God’s existence on objective reasoning. The reason I say (that [...]
Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Conjectivity
Posted in existentialism, tagged conjectivity, existentialism, objectivity, solipsism, subjectivity on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Conjectivity
There is a disconnect, sometimes infinitesimal, sometimes vast, between certitude and our experience. What we experience must be deduced by reason to determine its meaning, and through entering our subject faculties, it becomes interpreted experience. What we know we know through basic, self-evident truths. We recognize other truths other than those [...]
