Submitted by BernardJOrtcutt t3_zd7hlq in philosophy
ridgecoyote t1_izkhjwo wrote
Reply to comment by Coconutcabbie in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | December 05, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
You’re in line there with my philosophical choices, as well as my intellectual heroes, Royce, James and Peirce. Fictional ontology is a cornerstone of Pragmatism. But just because they are all postulative in nature does not mean we despair. They are all not all equal, some are better than others.
The problem comes in when you absolutize your ontology, like religion does and science has done.
Coconutcabbie t1_izm9yee wrote
Science and religion are at they're worst when they become dogmatic in the truth. They become weaponized for control, be it, Anthony Fauci claiming to be the science, or believing your faith demands you kill.
But both are utilities for good, if they persistently lead you to wonder.
Without religion, science may not have been discovered ( as in the method to question it all).
Without science, religion would purely be dogmatic, rather than expanded to find wonder in more.
I agree that an ideology fettered in absolutism is a problem—except free-speech—but my point isn't about what is right or wrong individually.
It's about why all arguments disagree fundamentally, yet all struggle with the same fault.
They all assume there was a beginning.
We all assume a beginning must have happened, but I'm trying to suggest that must be an assumption overlooked and obviously wrong.
To assume everything came to be with a start point, means agreement can never be found.
But if existence always is, there is no need to disagree on how everything begun.
For all things to come from nothing, something must exist: as nothing has no meaning unless it has something to be without.
Existence can't have a beginning to explain how it came to be. Existence just has to be, as it can't be any other way.
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