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Challenge the Philosophy - main arguments supporting Proposition 2


A Summary of the Main Arguments Supporting the Proposition that "we are [more reasonably] human beings who are part of the causal infinity of existence":


We Exist:

1. Existence of thought necessitates

Our mere conscious awareness of thoughts demonstrates, regardless of the content of the thoughts, that we must more reasonably exist at some level.


We are Human Beings:

1. Existence of thoughts

By establishing that we exist through awareness of thoughts, it follows more reasonably that we need physical and non-physical capacities in order to be aware of thoughts.

2. Differentiation with other life-forms

We are more reasonably distinguishable from other life-forms based on physical and mental characteristics.


Causal Infinity of Existence (from a more reasonable human perspective):

1. Causal perspective

Human perspective is necessarily defined by the comparison of thoughts, otherwise there would be nothing we could know and know that we do. Hence, everything we know is defined partly by causality.

2. Mind in box

We apparently cannot get outside of our minds and know that we are. In other words, we can only know what we know.

3. Incompleteness

Due to infinite regress and self-referentiality, what we know does not more reasonably reach a complete endpoint.

4. More reasonable incompleteness

Due to the apparent indirect nature of human thought, interactive nature of existence, and human origin of human knowledge, it follows that human knowledge is more reasonably incomplete rather than complete. (For further arguments supporting our inability to completely know, see Defense of Proposition 1)


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