Tag: Philosophy

Nothing New Under the Sun, Even in My Blog!

It may be pos­si­ble for sci­ence to deter­mine the ulti­mate truth of the uni­verse. It is just that we can nev­er know such truth has been reached.

That is a small part of a long post in the “ear­ly days” of this blog.

Xeno­phanes, about 2500 years ago:

The cer­tain truth there is no man who knows, nor ever shall be, about the gods and all the things where­of I speak. Yea, even if a man should chance to say some­thing utter­ly right, still he him­self knows it not — there is nowhere any­thing but guessing.

quot­ed in A His­to­ry of West­ern Phi­los­o­phy by Bertrand Rus­sell, page 40

The Same, But Opposite?

This Sur­viv­ing the World uses the quote from Picas­so “Every­thing you can imag­ine is real”.

When I saw that I had just read this in the last day or two:

The thing that can be thought and that for the sake of which the thought exists is the same; for you can­not find thought with­out some­thing that is, as to which it is uttered.*

Every­thing you can imag­ine is real.

You can­not find thought with­out some­thing that is

*Par­menides (fifth cen­tu­ry BC), quot­ed in A His­to­ry of West­ern Phi­los­o­phy by Bertrand Rus­sell, page 49