JackDaydream wrote: ↑October 17th, 2022, 11:30 am How much is certain or uncertain in life and philosophy?
Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑October 18th, 2022, 11:38 am Nearly everything seems to be uncertain. Only the existence of Objective Reality is certain. And, although the previous sentence is simply and clearly worded, it always seems necessary to qualify it, and say that Objective Reality's existence is the only Objective Truth we humans can knowingly possess. Everything else is, in philosophical terms, uncertain.
As I commented in another thread recently, we humans have great difficulty in accepting that we don't — maybe can't — know things, whatever those 'things' might be. Acceptance (where appropriate) is perhaps the most difficult thing for us to learn ... and accept.
JackDaydream wrote: ↑October 18th, 2022, 4:35 pm As I may have said in another thread objective reality is a bit of a wobbly idea and the only shared basis for it is confirmation of shared perceptions, and the closest representation of this may be the philosophy of realism. I am not sure that this is the only perspective and I may be more of a romantic thinker because I see imagination as being extremely important.I don't dispute anything you say, but I wonder how it relates to uncertainty, and whether it 'rules'?
The search for understanding all aspects of life and knowledge may be impossible and, if anything, it may be more worrying if people seek this because it would be sheer omnipotence. So, I am not looking for a theory of everything and such a viewpoint would probably gloss over so much in its endeavour. I have no problem with recognising the limitations of my own knowledge and of humans in general. I see awareness of this as being a humble recognition of limitations. Of course, the search to know more is worth striving for but to think it possible would be rather grandiose. I am not a relativist as such but knowledge may enfold like the multiverse, with infinite perspectives, even though there are many overlaps, especially in the intersubjective realm.
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