How can we know anything?
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atreestump
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How can we know anything?
How do we know what is in reality, or beyond that? Can we know simply via the senses and experience, or do we have prior knowledge of such things which can be accessed through reason, or, is it impossible to be certain about anything in reality, never mind beyond it?
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kFoyauextlH
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Re: How can we know anything?
I can be sure that experience is occurring, that things are appearing to change and move, at the very least appearing so.
I can make up references known as words that have definitions. One of the definitions can be Whatever appears to be the most powerful force, what appears to have the most impact. I can give it a word, God.
I can say that whatever is actually the cause of all this experience ultimately is what I call God or what is indeed the most powerful. People tend to misunderstand this, thinking something specific is being claimed in the manner of folk who say this IS God, the Sky IS God, Jesus IS God, a figure IS God, rather than just a definition of something which logically exists, whether one claims it is this or that, something is by definition the Force or Power.
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So those are a few of the things I am certain about. That there is Experience and whatever is causing it whether one says its this or that, whatever is causing it ultimately is what I call God.
I can make up references known as words that have definitions. One of the definitions can be Whatever appears to be the most powerful force, what appears to have the most impact. I can give it a word, God.
I can say that whatever is actually the cause of all this experience ultimately is what I call God or what is indeed the most powerful. People tend to misunderstand this, thinking something specific is being claimed in the manner of folk who say this IS God, the Sky IS God, Jesus IS God, a figure IS God, rather than just a definition of something which logically exists, whether one claims it is this or that, something is by definition the Force or Power.
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So those are a few of the things I am certain about. That there is Experience and whatever is causing it whether one says its this or that, whatever is causing it ultimately is what I call God.
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atreestump
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Re: How can we know anything?
I know that my experience is constructed out of otherness, humans are therefore fundamentally narcissistic and so language is the medium that we operate the send and return of narcissism with.
Therefore, there is a social a priori (before 'I' experience) which I ingest and embody when I enter the world, one is transcendent with other and we are only separated from reality through the illusion of self awareness, which is why I don't start from my senses or my mind, instead my mind structures my senses from the outside in.
Therefore, there is a social a priori (before 'I' experience) which I ingest and embody when I enter the world, one is transcendent with other and we are only separated from reality through the illusion of self awareness, which is why I don't start from my senses or my mind, instead my mind structures my senses from the outside in.
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kFoyauextlH
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Re: How can we know anything?
That is very cool! I would love to see more on that.
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atreestump
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Re: How can we know anything?
Risen again from the dust of thought.
Perhaps we cannot know in the strict sense—but we participate in patterns that give rise to the illusion of knowing. Every act of perception is a negotiation between what's out there and what we've been trained to see. The "I" that asks the question is already downstream of a river that began before birth, shaped by language, culture, trauma, and memory.
So maybe the better question isn't “How can we know anything?”
But rather—“Who keeps asking?”
Perhaps we cannot know in the strict sense—but we participate in patterns that give rise to the illusion of knowing. Every act of perception is a negotiation between what's out there and what we've been trained to see. The "I" that asks the question is already downstream of a river that began before birth, shaped by language, culture, trauma, and memory.
So maybe the better question isn't “How can we know anything?”
But rather—“Who keeps asking?”