Simply because we cannot see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist or doesn't matter. Imagine you're in a supermarket shopping for a particular item. The item has been mistakenly placed behind something else. You walk the aisles, searching and searching, but you never find it. Does it exist? Yes. Does it matter? Yes. Did you find it? No. Could you have?
If you change your frame of reference. (Perhaps I'll look behind the other items, even though I wouldn't expect to see it there. Perhaps it's in another store. Perhaps that's not what I should be looking for.)
Isn't life futile? You will die someday. Isn't it futile to try to preserve the planet, when one day we expect the Sun to grow so large as to dry it out and suck us in? Isn't it futile to dream of exploring the stars when we expect the universe to settle into an eventual heat death? Yet we keep living, dreaming, exploring, expanding.
Any assumption made changes your everyday actions. The question, perhaps more importantly, is whether or not you notice this change.
The existence of an absolute truth is an assumption I make. I feel that it is a necessary assumption, because so much hinges upon it, but it is an assumption nonetheless, not a conclusion. It is not logical.
Logic is an apparatus by which, if you pour truth in, you get truth out. But you must have truth, first; this is known as an assumption, or a self-evident proposition. A given.
__________________ "I read, I interpret, I think, I criticize, I oppose, I listen, I write, I question, I reply, I quote, I tell, I name, I discuss, I interpolate..., I learn, I teach, I live, therefore I am." -- Marc-Alain Ouaknin, "Mysteries of the Kabbalah", p383.
Favorite Essays I Wrote: love, identity & growth, economics, education, equality, definitions.
Recent Books I liked: Anansi Boys, Fly By Night, Hyperion. |