Tommy Jeppesen
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Short and dirty as in without evidence as such:
#Metaphysics as a minimum; the rest of reality is what is not your mind.
#The base rule for all knowledge in practice is that you treat the rest of reality as being fair; your experience of a monitor, which you read this on, means that there is a monitor independent of your experience of a monitor.
#Your mind itself is epiphenomenal, it doesn't do anything on its own. You always do something with your brain/body. There is no you in itself, the you is made up out of experiences.
#You always test/check what you can do.
#There are 4 main categories of doing and derived combinations:
1-External as with your body, either passive trough sensory input or active through trying out what you can with your body in relationship to the rest of reality. (Natural science as an observable and testable explanation)
2-Cognitive in the formal sense; logic and math. (Philosophy as thinking about thinking and natural science as probability and prediction)
3-Instinct, feelings and emotions. (Psychology and philosophy as morality and ethics)
4-Does reality add up? How do I make sense of reality?; i.e. a world view! (Religion even as a non-religious human)
There are more categories, but the one you must always include is causality.
So here it is, there is no one overall unified system/methodology possible because the 4 categories do not add up. They don't add up because of subjectivity. Subjectivity is the causation which is based upon biology and the replication of the fittest gene. In philosophy it is: "Man is the measure of all things: of the things that are, that they are, of the things that are not, that they are not." Measure is the subjective justification of morality and ethics and religion and it has no objective referent, because morality and ethics and religion is caused by the replication of the fittest gene.
Of course, because we as individuals rely on other humans we can achieve inter-subjectivity, but just because we agree subjectively on a given set of morality/ethics and religion doesn't make it objective.
The idea of objective justification for all humans is not possible because all moral and ethical and religious justification is (inter-)subjective.
With regards
#Metaphysics as a minimum; the rest of reality is what is not your mind.
#The base rule for all knowledge in practice is that you treat the rest of reality as being fair; your experience of a monitor, which you read this on, means that there is a monitor independent of your experience of a monitor.
#Your mind itself is epiphenomenal, it doesn't do anything on its own. You always do something with your brain/body. There is no you in itself, the you is made up out of experiences.
#You always test/check what you can do.
#There are 4 main categories of doing and derived combinations:
1-External as with your body, either passive trough sensory input or active through trying out what you can with your body in relationship to the rest of reality. (Natural science as an observable and testable explanation)
2-Cognitive in the formal sense; logic and math. (Philosophy as thinking about thinking and natural science as probability and prediction)
3-Instinct, feelings and emotions. (Psychology and philosophy as morality and ethics)
4-Does reality add up? How do I make sense of reality?; i.e. a world view! (Religion even as a non-religious human)
There are more categories, but the one you must always include is causality.
So here it is, there is no one overall unified system/methodology possible because the 4 categories do not add up. They don't add up because of subjectivity. Subjectivity is the causation which is based upon biology and the replication of the fittest gene. In philosophy it is: "Man is the measure of all things: of the things that are, that they are, of the things that are not, that they are not." Measure is the subjective justification of morality and ethics and religion and it has no objective referent, because morality and ethics and religion is caused by the replication of the fittest gene.
Of course, because we as individuals rely on other humans we can achieve inter-subjectivity, but just because we agree subjectively on a given set of morality/ethics and religion doesn't make it objective.
The idea of objective justification for all humans is not possible because all moral and ethical and religious justification is (inter-)subjective.
With regards