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Originally Posted by Dyshade Ask a Moderator, Super-Moderator, or Admin next time  We work cheap!!
Your question is inherently rhetorical in that it answers itself. It is a paradox. As such it is kind of silly and will net silence or silly rhetorical questions like that from DM  |
Agreed . . . and in speaking of terms of philosophy, "your theory" (which already exists, and in some ways more logically) is as flawed as any theory can be flawed. Eveything CAN NOT exist. For example, your mere idea of 2 + 2 = 5. That does exist, just in a different mathematical system. Math as we understand it is a Base-10 mathematical system. 2 + 2 = 4 is an absolute in a Base-10 mathematical system. 2 + 2 = 5 is an absolute in a Base-???? mathematical system. Ergo, 2 + 2 = 4 CAN ONLY exist in a Base-10 mathematical system.
Also, what about empiricism? Empirical observations are perhaps the most prime example of a human flaw, and it's philosophical attributes. Why, that's not an orange circle hovering in the sky that seems to circle us . . . it's a big ball of burning gas that we orbit around! Now, empiricism and perception can be pretty decieving, does that mean that those things exist? Do mirages exist? Hallucinations? As an absurdist, I will say yes, but there's a key fundamental difference between physical existence (such as, it's just a door frame) and metaphysical existence (it looks like the house's skeleton [the door frame] because I'm on LSD). Both exist, but not in the same manner.
Yet again, you have my ever favorite philosophical musing, which is tied into a Pre-Socratic philosophy: the correlation of opposites. What is the opposite of existence? Non-existence? Yet, if the opposite of existence, which is non-existence, should exist . . .? SHOULD EXIST? Non-existence . . . exists? Or rather, what is the opposite of a triangle? A non-triangle? But having a non-triangle as the opposite of a triangle isn't really justified. For the opposite of night is day. And if non-night is also the opposite of night . . . then, what is the opposite of a triangle? It's existence doesn't exist. Ergo, the opposite of a triangle isn't possible . . . at least, not in that philosophical mode of thought.
Anywho, like Dyshade said, your question is lacking . . . but at least you asked it!