• the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      What does set theory have to do with absolute truth? And if there is no absolute truth, how can any aspect of set theory be valid?

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        2 hours ago

        Might wanna brush up on your epistemology. These are middle school tier arguments.

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            52 minutes ago

            I can, but I won’t. This is no longer an entertaining use of my time. I’m not going to explain the implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem to someone with such a shaky grasp of epistemology. Pearls before swine.

            • the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
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              9 minutes ago

              It’s odd that you won’t explain your epistemology to someone, but you will claim moral/intellectual superiority in not explaining an actually important point after debating them on the hypothetical sentience of the sun for over a day. You can throw all the names of theorems you want at a conversation. but the simple fact is that “there is no absolute truth” is a self-contradictory statement. Any philosophy you build on such a fragile foundation is a non-starter.