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exactly nowhere in nature do hard absolutes exist
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Is that an absolute?
lol
well, let me know when we find the edge of the universe or something faster than the speed of light.
Way to dodge the Socratic questioning.
So you affirm that finding those things (or proving them impossible) would establish an absolute?
Axioms exist.
oh I see
you wanted to argue.
in the reality of you and I as people there are no hard absolutes.
the "speed of light" is just an idea on a piece of paper. it isnt meaningful or relevant to our experienced reality. all "absolutes" are abstract and arent something people actually deal with in nature.
at least I cant think of anything off the top of my head.
so yea,
its an axiom that there are no hard absolutes in human experience.
you gotta problem with that?
Yes, because you’re wrong. If you walk off a cliff, you will die. If you chug acid enough, you will die. We do certain things and refrain from others because there are laws to both human nature and the nature around us, which was the point of the OP’s point. Too hot, we die. Too cold, we die. There is a window of variables within which human life thrives and outside of which it does not… and further outside of which we die. THAT is an absolute.
Subjective reality = subjective morality = “anything goes”. But that doesn’t work because the “subjective” is not possible outside of the objective parameters our lives require.
Everything else is sophistry.
False axioms are not axioms. A subjective axiom is a contradiction in terms. Contradictions cannot exist.
i think you mean
"if you hit the ground at terminal velocity, death is practically assured"
which isn't an "absolute" (like the abstract speed of light or Bitcoin supply etc),
its just consistent enough to be reliable.
and your window of survivability changes over time. so in what way can you call that "absolute"?
I'm not arguing pro relativism but theres a material difference between the tendencies you describe and what I'm talking about as "absolute".
I think, at that point, you are using the term “absolute” incorrectly, and thus, leading me to assume an argument you didn’t intend to make.
As for your example: “practically assured” sure. Make it into a spike pit. There is a describable real circumstance where there is no guessing—the person is just gone.
But it is the relativism I am trying to address.
I still think you are right on deflation, mind you (and, considering our current issue is INFLATION, deflation, therefore is the inevitable result of anything that solves the inflation issue).
use whatever word you like.
i think theres a difference between your "falling into a pit of spikes" and the inevitability of the hard cap.
I dont think its likely to turn out well for people try to force "Permanence" on natural systems like human exchange.
but mostly I was screwing around, maybe I'm wrong.
Fair enough. Sorry if I came off combative.
I see that phrase far more used in the hard metaphysical sense.
well... energy
According to the first law of thermodynamics.