but also uncertain about uncertainty itself — maplestreet
I now interpret contradictory things to have no absolute reference to the way the world functions, but as merely a formal concept that is at best an approximate model of the workings of a very small segment of the world. — maplestreet
Logical conclusions do not correspond to what obtains in the world. So neither do I feel any compelling force from solipsism. — maplestreet
A while ago I took some anticholinergics. — maplestreet
Perhaps a more clear way of saying what I said earlier is something like this:
Prior to these experiences, I thought that it was accurate to say something does not exist (is not to be found in the world) if it is self-contradictory. I no longer believe that being self-contradictory excludes something from being found in the world. — maplestreet
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