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Comment by bowsamic

8 months ago

Well it isn’t a fallacy because if you reason without presuppositions you do uncover the absolute truth

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haswell  8 months ago

> if you reason without presuppositions

This cannot be accomplished, and the conclusion that such a feat leads to absolute truth is philosophically untenable.

  • bowsamic  8 months ago

    Yes it can. Hegel did it in the Science of Logic

    • haswell  8 months ago

      Many people have made philosophical claims. That does not make them categorically true, and Hegel certainly has his critics.

    • jrflowers  8 months ago

      I used to know a guy that read some Hegel and then claimed dominion over Knowing the Truth and I used to piss him off by saying shit like “dogmatic people are slaves to their fears” and “discourse is a form of oppression”