"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Sunday, January 17, 2010

weekly post

1.http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Philosophy/axioms/axioms/Philosophy_is_Bullshit.html

This article basically is a component of a entire collection. This one is based on the thought that philosophy and life is based on lies and that nothing can be proven in the big picture.

2. a. reality is based on our ideas
b. our ideas are based on axioms and how we percieve the world.
C. the world is basically formed by the human mind and may as well not be reality.

valid, deductive

3. This question is very basic and cliche but the this article brings it up well : How is anything real and proven if the world is formed by what we think are assertions?

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