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Absolutes do not exist...I think? Growth and change require an absolute one man said.....?
something compared to or in relation to something, in his mind that meant something absolute. yet to me it seems that that is not the case. Since growth dos not have to be into something know, something already decided. I mean it can be spontaneous growth into unknown.
And change can be understood in relation to the world around you, itself in constant change. Plus the you that once was compared to the you today, is compared with your memory, also subject to change and distortion. The reality of it being only a thought. So I dont see his arguement of stating that is proof.
I am not a philosophy expert so please correct me if I am wrong.

2007-12-15 04:21:31 · 5 answers · asked by Lorenzo de' Medici 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

"Change does infer one absolute being compared to another absolute. You cannot say you are taller if you aren't certain you were once short."

but does not an sbsolute mean something perfect, thus static?
then you compare your height with a memory, a thought.
how can that be absolute, where does it exist? my mind? even that will pass.

Sorry, english is not my mother tounge.

2007-12-15 04:21:41 · update #1

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Absolutes do exist.

The statement "Absolutes do not exist" is itself an absolute, and is therefore a self-disproving statement.

Further, you can make the statement that "A is A", which is an absolute, and the corollary of "A is not Non-A". A thing is itself, and is not otherwise, so both of these somewhat useless statements are absolutes and true, despite the fact that it still leaves us wondering precisely what "A" is.

So-called Philosophers through the centuries have confused their inability to be certain within themselves with uncertainty within the Universe itself. Just because one individual or no individual knows the answer to a question does not mean that there is not one answer that is true.

Step away from Philosophy for a while and immerse yourself in both "practical reality" and in Art. Philosophy is no more than a systematic way of looking at things, it is not an answer to anything, let alone all the questions of Life.

As Hamlet observed, "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your Philosophies, Horatio."

2007-12-15 04:24:56 · answer #1 · answered by open4one 7 · 3 1

Absolutely.

Lewis Carroll stated that in order for a statement to be absolute, it had to contain two sub-statements. 1) the assertion your making. 2)that the opposite of the assertion didn't exist.

Example. A library is filled with 100 books dating from the early 1800's to the early 1900's. All the books on the North Wall are sorted and have only the dates of January 1, 1800 till
January 1, 1850 or 1/1/1800 till 1/1/1850.
All the books on the south wall, however, only contain books that are date-sorted from January 1, 1850 till January 1, 1900 or 1/1/1850 till 1/1/1900.

Now in our controlled environment we are prepared to make some absolute assertions:

1)All 1825 books are books on the North-wall.

-In order for this statement to be true in Reality, as it is in our controlled environment, the following have to be true as well-
1) Some 1825 books are books on the North-wall.
2) No 1825 books are books on the South-wall.

If these statements are true, as they are gleaning from the example, then the absolute assertion that "All 1825 books are on the North-wall is true. And more importantly verifiable. All one would have to do is go to the South-wall and search for 1825 books, then after finding none look through the books on the North-Wall, and on arrival of finding that first 1825 book, he can declare:

Absolutely! All 1825 books are on the North-wall! Verifiably even!

Try for yourself the statement: All 1875 books are on the South-Wall. Keeping to the conditions above.

May the absolutes you find be ever true, in whatever condition your in...

2007-12-15 05:03:34 · answer #2 · answered by SophiaSeeker 5 · 1 0

growth has to do with and alteration or an addition. This modifies something from it's prevous form.

As a person grows older their view may change do to experience, knowledge, and clearing (emotional) subjectivity.

Almost everything is in a state of flux. So to is each individual in a state of reinterpetation of reality as each has a changing and growing state of inter-relationship with the immediate and less with the distant.

2007-12-15 04:48:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

interior the comparable settings many Christians have reported that once cain kill able G-d reported to able the place's your brother? And he reported am i my brother's keeper? yet maximum Christians comprehend that ' That their G-d... why might "Blessed One Be He.". ask the place's your brother, yet in Hebrew language there at the instant are not any vowel's so the questions keeps to be....not the place's your brother, yet the place are you at the instant? Absolutes additionally proceed to be while the Lord reported approximately emptiness and void....nicely to the Torah ( 5 books of Moses) In between the celebs and the gap is the void and trip to the celebrity one to a distinctive is empty and void. some thing to discover ways to a minimum of a few thing relation in ideas or spontaneous because it incredibly is asserted interior the Talmud at the back of each and every atom is an angel say develop develop develop....

2016-12-17 18:53:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Change is the only thing that is absolute. Nothing remains and nothing remains the same. Somethings slower than others but still ever changing.

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2007-12-15 04:27:04 · answer #5 · answered by alliancebodyworks 2 · 1 0

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