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Is there a point of some sort?
- So what are you attempting to say?
Well, if I were already sure about that, I'd have made that point. I'm really trying to find out whether there is a point to be made or not...
...given you don't make any point in this thread?
It's an idealistic abstraction.Is there anything beyond "it is not relative to anything else", which we can say about the absolute?
When I see the phrase "the Absolute", it reminds me of its use in apophatic theology, and by some Advaitan writers to mean the unknowable, ineffable source of the universe. The term points to the idea that we can't define it, and indeed, can't even know what it is. I'm not sure from what context you're deriving the phrase, but this is my understanding of it.Is there anything beyond "it is not relative to anything else", which we can say about the absolute?
It is probably a fact of existence, but very much related to everything else. Brahman. The underlying substrate of all things in the universe, nothing excluded.Is there anything beyond "it is not relative to anything else", which we can say about the absolute?
It's an idealistic abstraction.
I'm not sure from what context you're deriving the phrase, but this is my understanding of it.
Don't know. Don't care. The universe will continue as it does without my speculating on an abstraction that is abstractly beyond attributes.Is it nothing BUT an abstraction? Can we even hope to know whether "the absolute" exists, or does existence simply make no sense with an abstraction like that? (IOW, is it substantial?)
Don't know. Don't care.
In support of Pragmatism--I don't like how it sometimes gets relabeled as Maya by those enthralled by "The Absolute."Umm... then why take part in a discussion thread about it?
I don't like how it sometimes gets relabeled as Maya
To clarify, I don't like how pragmatism gets relabeled as Maya by some who are enthralled by The Absolute.Hehe. So you do care about its definition!
Yes.Is there anything beyond "it is not relative to anything else", which we can say about the absolute?