• Dialectical Idealist@lemmygrad.ml
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    24 hours ago

    The concepts “reality”, “objectivity”, “subjectivity”, “being”, “existence”, and “everything” are all subject to debate. There are too many questions here for this to have any meaning (to invoke another elusive concept)

    1. Do all entities that have reality also exist? (Consider, for example, the unicorn in my dreams)
    2. Do all entities that exist also have being? (Consider the natural numbers)
    3. Is “everything” merely the set of entities that exist or does it also include the things that we can identify with language but do not exist? (Consider the logically contradictory “square circle”)
    4. Are “objective” and “subjective” mutually exclusive? (For example, I am objectively feeling pain but pain is a subjective mental state; the stick in water objectively has the property of subjectively appearing bent in water)
    5. Why should objectivity entail materialism? Why should subjectivity entail idealism?

    Ofc this is all in good humor but it’s worth flagging these issues.