im the last of the geniuses
Okay I have a question then:If the totality of being is only thinkable through categories that the intellect itself contributes, and yet the intellect's categories are themselves contingent upon the temporal unfolding of self-consciousness, then is the concept of "truth" merely the self-affirmation of reason's own structure, or does it correspond to a reality independent of that structure?Further: if we claim that "truth" transcends the limits of the subject, how can such transcendence be intelligible without being subsumed back into the very framework it exceeds -- and if we deny transcendence, how can we avoid collapsing all objectivity into an infinite regress of self-reference?
>>82910590Reality and reason coincide as far as things like 2 and 2 being 4. Just as a retard can't fathom that, there may be a "perfect mind" which determines that 2 and 4 are abstractions of reason, not fundamental facts. So it seems our reality perfectly coincides with the extent of our reason, but only up to the boundary of our reason itself. Hasn't truth always exceeded our limits until until we thought it?
>>82910859You are right that what we call truth expands with the development of reason, and that what once transcended thought later becomes thinkable.But notice that this implies that the 'beyond' of thought can only ever be articulated from within the movement of thought itself. Even the idea of a 'perfect mind' is a concept within our present framework. Thus, your notion of a higher reason remains bound to the very structure you claim it surpasses. Therefore, the problem of transcendence remains: we can speak as if truth exceeds us, but any such talk is already mediated by our conceptual forms. Truth, as we can know it, is not a mirror of a reality outside thought, but the self-unfolding of reason as it comes to coincide with itself.What we call 'objectivity' is thus not the correspondence of thought to an independent thing, but the coherence of the process by which reason recognizes itself as the condition of experience. The infinite regress is not a flaw but the very dynamism of self-consciousness.
>>82910918so truth and thought are simply feedback loops of a biological process inside human minds orrrr what? what point are you making? that truth can't be found then?
Damn.. we'll miss you when you're gone, big man.
The point is that "truth" isn't just something we find out there, like discovering a rock or a tree. It's not something that exists independently of us, and it's not a simple feedback loop either. Rather, truth is how reason, or thought, unfolds through its own structure. The process of thinking about things (like when we reason about the world, or when we try to understand anything) is itself a way in which truth becomes clear. When we say something is true, we're really just describing how well our thought fits together and makes sense within our own mental framework. So, truth doesn't "exist" out there as a separate thing; it's a reflection of how our reasoning develops and aligns with itself. It's not about finding a pre-existing truth "out there" but about how thought comes to recognize itself and its own limits.It's not that truth isn't possible, it's just that it's always connected to the way we think about it. Truth is less like finding an object and more like discovering how reason works through itself.
>>82910992Meant forr>>82910949
>>82910992brother really just said truth is essentially just our own subjective beliefs and opinions like... okay? you just believe in post modern ideas of the time you live in then
>>82911013I'm not saying that truth is subjective, but that truth is transcendental -- it arises through the universal forms of reason that make knowing anything possible in the first placePostmodernism tends to deny universal reason altogether. I'm saying the opposite: that reason is the very medium through which truth exists at all.My "truth" is grounded in the self-developing logic of reason itself, not in arbitrary human opinions.
>>82911030okay kant
>>82911100And Hegel too!
>>82911030fyi you sound really gay
>>82911389I personally don't hang around gays so I wouldn't know anon
>>82910204How does one know that they are a genius? Why do you believe that you are the last of them? Could other simply have decided that quiet peace is the ideal, and pursue a quiet life?
>>82911712You just knowIf you're not a genius you won't get it
>>82911425Try it. You'd feel right at home.
