Monday, February 10, 2014

Metaphysical vs Epistemic

   The idea that nature itself might not exist at all is a hard fact to swallow, but it falls in line with the metaphysical method to understand reality. This method states that concepts like nature and reality are real because we made it. Eliminating it would not violate the true laws of nature that we cannot conceptualize. To make my statement clearer I would like to provide an example such that if you eliminate the Eifle tower, you do not violate a law of nature which means it can go from existing to not exiting. The question then becomes, when it was destroyed, did it ever exist in the first place? Rather, we as humans beings decide to believe in the epistemic philosophies which means we believe things are tangible because of the role they play in society. The belief subserves as a social purpose to society. For example, we are taught to believe that murdering is wrong because it serves a purpose for population control. In other words, because we do not want to be killed because of our self preservation tendencies, we come up with these ‘natural laws’ that further ourselves in a primal world.

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