My personal worldview is ultimately Holistic and Monistic. — Gnomon
But when we begin to "describe" the world, in language or math, it is necessary to make "distinctions". — Gnomon
In a certain sense, I think the "entire context" matters for fully defining constituent "parts" role in any universe, and this might preclude things' being "building blocks" at all in the normal sense. — Count Timothy von Icarus
You can do possible things. You cannot do impossible things.
You cannot point to something that is outside the universe.
You are part of the universe. Your thoughts are part of the universe. Language is part of the universe.
You cannot reference not-universe in any way. It is flat out, unequivocally, impossible. — Treatid
Everything humans have achieved is what is possible. Aligning our expectations with reality will be orders of magnitude more productive than the alternative. — Treatid
The concept of "outside the universe" is null. It doesn't mean anything.
Your concept of "outside the universe" is part of the universe. It is inside the universe. — Treatid
Language and mathematics don't have a secret backdoor access to an objective viewpoint independent of the universe. — Treatid
Freedom is built into the real, and the past doesn’t determine the future, it only provides constraints and affordances. — Joshs
Reality is a moving target. Knowledge is praxis, a way of changing how we interact with our world in ways that are useful to us. The changes we make in our interactions with the world feed back into our understanding to further change our knowledge. — Joshs
There is no limit to the variety of ways we can scientifically construe our world — Joshs
Thanks to the unidirectional arrow of time, the universe is continually outside itself, continually overcoming its former states. — Joshs
My position is formally an internalist epistemology. I'm a Peircean pragmatist. So problem dealt with. — apokrisis
But all definitions within a system are circular. — Treatid
There is no space in which particles move. Like frames of a film, a series of interactions can give the impression of continuous movement in space. — Treatid
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