for instance: it's true that there is god and it is true that there is no god?
2006-10-31 01:51:17 · 12 answers · asked by 42 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
That's the nature of Paradox,when two opposites are true.Yes I believe.
2006-10-31 01:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well no, I believe that there is a God. Something can't exist & not exist. It either does or doesn't. But this is my reality. Not everyone has the same belief system. To an atheist, there is no God & that is their reality. So if reality is merely subjective then in that sense God both exists & doesn't since some of us believe & some don't. So, yes! As certain as I am about my faith, I still respect that others don't live in this reality & have another outlook.
2006-10-31 12:42:21 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that what is viewed as the opposite of a true statement by one person, could be the truth for other person.
The paradox just exists if the same person accept that one statement and its opposite are true at the same time.
In your example, "God exists" is completely true for some people, but its opposite "God does not exist" is completely true for others. Thinking both at the same time as true lead us to a TRUE contradiction.
Good luck!
2006-10-31 10:37:49 · answer #3 · answered by CHESSLARUS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are two kinds of reality. In the instance of Schroedinger's cat, it was both alive and dead. Until observing makes it one or the other. So there is the reality that things are what they are, but there is the other reality that things are only what they are once they are perceived.
2006-10-31 09:59:41 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Ettejin of Wern 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well well no I am a bit confused with your statement but
Since I am God I am here to clear things up for ya.
2006-10-31 11:39:04 · answer #5 · answered by Cherry Berry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perceptually (or subjectively) yes, objectively probably not, but there is an exception to every rule. And in some beliefs everything both is and isn't, so it must be. If there's an answer in there, I don't see it...
2006-10-31 10:02:27 · answer #6 · answered by stuck_fla 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There has to be a left if you go right. You can't go backwards if there was no forward, otherwise, half our language would disappear...or would all our language dissappear, since one half depended on the existence of the other half?
2006-10-31 10:35:21 · answer #7 · answered by Curt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
are you talking about what we percieve as truth which can exist with it's opposite or Objective Truth irrelevent to experience which we can never be certain we know which cannot exist with it's negative.
2006-10-31 09:58:09 · answer #8 · answered by ULTIMATEMEANING 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opposites are valid only with logical values .
2006-10-31 09:59:05 · answer #9 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Which way is left, which way is right?
Reality is beyond intellectual logic.
2006-10-31 22:18:26 · answer #10 · answered by Steve G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋