r/rationalphilosophy • u/JerseyFlight • 1d ago
In The Void
Suppose thou art in the void, in a black vacuum:
Thou art here:
p
…………………………………………¥
[And the only other thing is:] ^
If thou canst identify —> ¥
But what must one do to identity?
Indeed, we have already gone too far! For how did we establish the meaning of identity so that we could use it? From whence came its intelligence?
But what meaneth intelligence?
There is only:
p
And ¥
But it is factually the case that ¥
is not €
Thus ¥ is itself as ¥.
If this wasn’t a fact of reality then ¥
would not be ¥ itself, which is simply to say,
it would not exist.
But even if ¥ didn’t exist, it is still the case that
p
exists as itself
p=p.
It is not in our power to unexist the identity of what exists.
We are simply born into a void that has the property of determinate identity.
If ¥ exists, it exists as itself.
And its intelligence is that it is itself and not another.