Not A Philosophical Theory

These posts are ongoing thoughts about philosophy. They do not follow a predetermined sequence, so use the Google Toolbar site search feature to search this site for other posts on a topic that interest you. Comments are welcome, if you exist. As this blog evolves, I may contradict previous statements. Contradictions are part of life, but not logic. I'll go with life.

Friday, November 19, 2004

No logic

I will explicitly avoid using logic or mathematical formulas in this exploration. Those languages are useful, and are used by many people with a great deal of expertise. The goal of this exploration is to take a new path and discover new ways of interpreting the world which may be equally or more useful than those already established.

Thursday, November 18, 2004

What's out there?

If you are reading this, then something in the Universe exists, but how we describe that thing (or those things, or the entire Universe, if it is just one thing) changes and will always change because of the flux of information. More on that flux later.

As to the sceptics' claim that we can never know anything with certainty about the external world, we can therefore know with certainty that something exists. Beyond that are descriptions which are more or less useful, or more or less pleasing. Descartes would have been on a more useful track if he had said, "I think, therefore the Universe is."