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Old Feb 13, 2007, 11:08 AM
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damn, i'm so bad at capturing that.

here is a thought experiment (follow along if you like you don't need laboratory access to do philosophy)

lets try and doubt this proposition 'there is a thought'

'i doubt that there is a thought'

what was that?

a thought

in doubting that you are thinking
you are doubting
doubting is a form of thinking
doubting is thinking
doubting proves something exists
(proves what exists?)
a doubt exists

why is there something rather than nothing
(w. says this is a proposition that has no answer)
where there can be a question there can be an answer
where there is no answer
the answer lies in the dissolution of the question

the solution to the problem of space and time lies outside space and time

if you have a system of proof there will always be a proof that lies outside the system (the proof that that system is true)

he says the question
why is there something rather than nothing?
has no answer

it is meaningless.

but why is it... that it seems meaningful to me

(and can't something SEEM certain but not be? why is a sense of conviction or certainty a guide to truth?)

all these delusions in my head...

etc.