Martin Caffrey

Using analytical philosophy to ask questions about philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology and phenomenology. Creator of

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Can you prove that nothing exists?

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@LifeThruBook @PhysInHistory 👍

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@shipranotes Needs more books.

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@AuthorGFAllen Samuel Beckett.

I read the first page of the Mallow trilogy, and went online and ordered all three books in the series.

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@clarafables I fear not the man who has read 10,000 books, but I fear the man who has read one book 10,000 times.

Especially if that book is by Plato, Aristotle or Aquinas.

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Being myself is the hardest thing for me to be.

I too often want to be the perception that I present to others of myself. But that's merely what is perceived, not what is, i.e., the phenomenology of an object does not determine it's ontological existence.

I feel that becoming myself, and not the perception presented, would make me unlikable.

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@Cloud_Journal I was forced to read it at school. Very dark and scary. But also it's nice to visit Whitby to join the dots.

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@DavidKairoT It's a perfect place for a thinker.

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@PerseusLeGrand I've visited a few times. Beautiful place, but an acute absence of public toilets.

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@Agratefulheart_ The complete works of Plato.
The complete works of Aristotle.
Suma Theological by Thomas Aquinas.

And various novels by Samuel Beckett to keep me grounding in the absurd and surreal.

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@SchopenhauerNow What a man has, he can lose.

How a man is regarded, he can lose.

What a man is, he cannot lose, that is his.

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@m966021 It's exceedingly difficult to define and describe God in non-abstract terms, as God is a metaphysical question that, at least in my opinion, can only be known a priori rather than a posteriori.

No?

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@LifeThruBook @PhysInHistory This is not by accident.

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@PhysInHistory I know that I know nothing.

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Read difficult books, not because they are difficult, but because they make you think difficult thoughts.

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@CLT_Exam My education began the day I left school.

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@okadikeluc81 @PhysInHistory I posit that the endless supply of free beer was the premise used to attract the greatest thinkers.

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@Nilsvilliam @PhysInHistory I'm pretty sure a group of physicists could figure our how to run a line of free beer into their living room.

Why else study physics if not for that reason alone?

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@Cloud_Journal For some reason I felt like Poland would be in there, as Poland has some of the best Software Engineers in the world.

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That's a fair question.

I reply that, the New Testament establishes that Christians are not bound by the Mosaic Law as a covenant, e.g:

Acts 15;
Galatians 3:23–25

Its moral principles, however, are reaffirmed by Christ and the apostles, e.g:

Matthew 22:37–40;
Romans 13:8–10

So, the threefold classification is a theological framework, not an explicit biblical division.

Does this answer your query?

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@Cloud_Journal I heard that most billionaires lead miserable lives anyway, which is why they surround themselves with mansions, fast cars and private jets as a way to comfort themselves.

Not that I'm jealous, of course.