Semra Doğan

MA student in Philosophy | Analytic Metaphysics & Grounding Theory | Erasmus ahead | Philosophy vlog coming soon

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@Philip_Goff And the issue isn’t “what reality makes it true,”
but what grounds its truth;
facts, norms, or language?

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@Philip_Goff You’re not explaining truth,
you’re presupposing it.

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Youth passes.
Power unravels.

What, then, is of value?

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A painting speaks to us only when we know its language.
To create one, we must first learn that language.

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We begin with a life given to us,
so why do we believe our choices are truly our own?

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Everyone speaks,
but only some are touched by the light -
and become visible.

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You don’t live through dark thoughts-
you only survive, or slowly die.

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@jclimacus5 Maybe. But if it's always already there, why do we spend most of our lives missing it? The glimpse is real - but so is the forgetting.

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We've been asking 'what exists?' for thousands of years.

But maybe that was never the right question.

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@jclimacus5 But 'converge' still assumes they start apart. Even in those traditions, enlightenment is something reached - not something you begin with.

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@jclimacus5 But living something and knowing what it is are very different things.

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@jclimacus5 You can’t really step outside logic -
but you can notice how much it shapes what you take reality to be.

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@PeterSjostedtH If consciousness is only an “accidental” surface,
then most of what we are never appears to us at all.

It makes self-knowledge feel less like discovery
and more like a very partial translation.

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@Philip_Goff Rejecting penal substitution because it was invented 500 years ago seems reasonable-but where does that logic stop? Does older necessarily mean more accurate, or just less obviously constructed?

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But here's the problem- something has to do the arguing. So before the argument starts, there's already... something. A witness without a name.

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The self isn't found. It's argued into existence.

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@John_Attridge Heidegger would agree - we've forgotten how to simply be.
But he also wrote 600 pages about it. Make of that what you will.

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@JoshuaLWatson The ridiculous nonsense is the inner life. Plato also just posted his dialogues and hoped for the best.

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@mindsetofstoics @mindsetofphilos But who's the landlord? This just says 'keep working' dressed up as wisdom.

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@HermannHessed Tell that to Einstein, he said he rarely thought in words at all.