An object that is orange has the property of reflecting all red wavelength and some green wavelength while completely absorbing blue wavelength of light.
Properly speaking, an object is not orange, but has the property of reflecting and absorbing certain wavelengths of light.
Without light this property is not a something to be concerned with.
We often mistake the light for the object.
An object which absorbs all blue light but reflecting all red and one-quarter of green light will produce the sensation an object say is orange.
But let us make it clear—the light is always the same combination of reflected red and green light with the absorption of blue light by an object that makes the object appear to be orange. Nothing materially orange can be found in the orange, and nothing materially orange can be removed from the the object to be its own object “orange”.
All the way down all we find is light or energy.
Is the orange in the complete darkness of my refrigerator still orange?
Does it have a colour, or is it merely a linguistic trick?
There are particulars and the entire set of unique particulars.
Everything in between are universals.
There is nothing more specific to particulars and nothing more general to the set.
All that is necessary for philosophy is the experience of reality. All the answers are there.
How much knowledge is sufficient for philosophy?
The mind is identical to the process of the body.
Experience. There is no more convenient place to start than with one’s birth. It is pointless to try to go beyond that to some place perhaps vitalists want to go. We have no access to that place.
A child with little experience can only continue with the content of the mind. Without full control of their body the child must move forward with their mind’s content.
At this point never fully aware of what the content of their mind is believing like ancient Chinese philosophers that this content is only a dream, we deal it as best we could. Eventually we will realize that the world is not only the content of the mind but the content of the mind contained inside a body. Once we become aware of the body we proceed to engage with the world and other bodies.
The question remains though what is the relationship between the mind and the body. And this question will occupy the questioner for many years to come. We must decide whether it is singular or dual to begin with. Then decide which of the contents are real and unreal. We must decide how much of the content can be trusted. We must do so without falling into the trap that leads to insanity, to a place that is illogical.
Navigating through all this eventually we shall emerge from the other side unscathed. This is philosophy.
I distinctly remember as a child I felt that I was what I was thinking. I felt I was what was described as an idealist.
The body did not seem to matter (No pun intended). The contents of the mind was long lasting. More enduring than the changing world.
At some point, though, the body started to seem to matter, that I was not apart from this body. Here I was no longer just mind but mind and body. I had become an dualist.
Later still I had decided that the mind meant nothing, that Buddhist concept of non-self was correct.
By extension then it made sense that materialism, physicalism, reism was the logical conclusion.
In short, I had moved through the entire spectrum of Western philosophy ending in the materialist’s camp with the help of Buddhism.
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