The sword of truth

[Eudaimonist]

It obviously follows buddy. That nothing cannot exist because reality exists. If nothing existed then reality wouldn't exist. You people think I don't know what I am talking about but this is what is taught in philosophy. It is pure philosophy; from it stems all sects of philosophy.

It is a self-evident fact that reality exists, and that complete nothingness does not exist. You are correct about this. However, it does not follow from this that everything you can imagine exists.

I have a paper lunch bag. It is bulging, so clearly there is a lunch inside, and not no lunch. It does not follow logically that all imaginable lunches are inside. Perhaps I have a tuna sandwich, and no apple. Perhaps I have an apple, but no tuna sandwich.

The only branch of philosophy that comes close to supporting your claim is Platonism, which is hardly "all sects of philosophy", and even there Plato might have insisted that the realm of Ideals contains more than the earthly realm of physicality.

You are certainly leaving out the very influential Aristotelian tradition of philosophy, and that is just one example.


eudaimonia,

Mark