There is no such thing as relative truth, unless you are delusional. All is "one" as most people like to say to date. #NewAge, Eastern Religions/and Pagan thinking...etc: "They all share the central premise or goal of monism, that "all is one": or evolving to become one. But this line of thinking is fatally flawed. All is not one, nor will it ever become one. In surveying Eastern thought, pantheistic philosophers simply assume that "being" (existing) is univocal (has a single definition) and then offer arguments for monism. However, if the world "being" is defined in such a way that is always means exactly the same thing, then anything that "is" is necessarily the same. This does not prove that "all is one"; rather, it betrays circular reasoning and equivocation of the worst kind. Being or existing is NOT always the same sort of thing. A ROCK DOES NOT EXIST IN THE SAME WAY AS A PERSON. A THOUGHT DOES NOT EXIST THE SAME WAY AS A CAR (emphasis mine). Even more, we must account for qualia, a term for ideas like "the redness of red" or "wetness of water". It does not exist anywhere other than in a mind. They are mental realities wholly other than matter. But it gets worse... If everything is one, are monism and dualism then the same? While this is obviously absurd, it shows that monism is fundamentally incoherent." - Chris Putnam
Posted on: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 07:26:37 +0000
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