Philosophical Fun 2

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. In this same day, I want to create even more philosophical chaos and destruction, no just kidding, I mean fun. In fact, I want to create order and creation. That is done through logical inferences and logical forms, at least to the extent we can do it with natural language. So, what proper inference that I am going to make? I will be recreating the abstract inference of God which I established in Philosophical Fun 1 but in a more rigorous form. This will be done in a series of numbered statements.

1.     Does reality exist?

2.     If any member of the category of reality exist, then the entire category of reality exists.

3.     A member of the category of reality exists.

4.     Therefore, reality exists.

5.     Must reality exist?

6.     If the category of reality is always filled with a member or members no matter what is true, then reality always exists.

7.     Either the object of existence exists or the object of non-existence exists. Yet this means the category of reality always has at least a member.

8.     Therefore, reality must exist, or in other words, the existence of reality is a necessity.

 

1.     What is the defining criterion of reality? What must objects possess to be part of reality?

2.     Can an object be outside of reality?

3.     An object outside of reality cannot be described or thought of at all, it has no relationship to awareness and the intellect.

4.     If an object is outside of reality, it cannot interact with anything inside of reality.

5.     If an object is outside of reality and it can interact with things inside of reality, then there is a greater category of reality beyond what is regularly defined as reality.

6.     Therefore, there is nothing outside of reality, be it the object of existence or the object of non-existence. There are no objects outside of reality, all objects are located within reality.

7.     If all objects are within reality, then there is nothing to distinguish between an object in reality and an object outside of reality. As there is no object outside of reality.

8.     Therefore, the singular property which is shared by all members of reality is the property of reality.

9.     What is reality?

10.  Objects are definable by the properties, attributes, or in other words, parts that they possess.

11.  Objects which have only one part, property, or attribute, is undefinable.

12.  The object of reality only has one part.

13.  Reality is undefinable.

14.  If reality is undefinable, it is simple.

15.  Reality is simple.

16.  Can reality be defined as the collection of its members?

17.  If reality is the collection of its members, then reality is composed of all the properties which belongs to its members.

18.  Therefore, the definition of reality is the collection of every property that belongs to the members of reality. As the properties which constitute the members of reality is identical to the members, it is equivalent to saying that reality is the collection of its members.

19.  Yet each member of reality is real because they possess the property of reality. Therefore each member of reality possess every other member.

20.  There is thus only one true member of reality.

21.  Reality is composed of a single member.

22.  Reality is simple.

 

1.     Is reality the highest category?

2.     If reality is not the highest category, there is at least one object outside of reality.

3.     If a non-real object can affect objects of reality, there is a relationship between objects of reality and objects of non-reality.

4.     If there is a relationship between objects of reality and objects of non-reality, there is a unity between those objects.

5.     There is a highest category and that category should be named the category of reality.

6.     If there is no relationship between objects of reality and objects of non-reality, there is no unity between those objects.

7.     If there is no unity between those objects, the objects of non-reality have no significance to the objects of reality and so there is no significance to the category of reality.

8.     Therefore, either reality is the highest category truly or reality is the highest significant category, which in our perception, it has to be the highest category.

9.     Therefore, reality is the highest category.

 

1.     Reality exists necessarily and is the highest category, truly or in significance, to the members of reality.

2.     A member belongs in a category because it has a part which is common to that category.

3.     Therefore, a real object is real because it has a part of reality, or property of reality common to reality.

4.     The property or object of reality which all objects in reality possess is singular and simple.

5.     The object of reality is simply itself.

6.     Therefore, reality is undefined by other properties.

7.     If reality does not possess any other properties, reality must be unbound by those properties.

8.     Therefore the object of reality is infinite.

9.     The reality that is simple and infinite is often called God.

10.  God exists.

Objections

1.     Assume a car. A car has the property of a car. The object of car is also singular and simple. Therefore all properties are God for being simple and infinite.

2.     Response: The property of a car is clearly defined by the other properties a car is expected to have. The property of a car is therefore composite and finite.

3.     We do not know precisely whether the property of reality is simple or not. For all we know, the property of reality might be composite and thus finite.

4.     Response: The counter possibility leads to simplicity of reality as well in the end. All objects are defined by their composition or lack of composition. What composes an object is what makes the object itself. It is impossible for reality to be composed as there is nothing other than reality which composes reality. If reality is composite, then reality must be composite of itself and something other than itself.

Experimental Comparison Argument

1.     Assume a category of blue balls. Yet the category of blue ball is itself based in the union of the categories blue and ball.

2.     The category of reality is not based on the union of any other categories. It is not a derivation of a higher category either. It is the final category of all things. Therefore, the property of this category ought to not be based on the composition of things.

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