Oh right, the idea that nihilism is self-refuting or logically contradictory. Maybe it is, but people still seem to understand what I’m talking about. I find that interesting, don’t you?
See I don’t understand why Christians think the trinity is a contradiction. “God is one person, composed of three other persons.” makes as much sense as “The China brain is one person, composed of a billion people” or “a subset is a set that is part of another set”. In programming, it’s easy to create an object that belongs to class X while also having component parts that belong to class X.
The problem is that the options you just alluded to are probably heresy: I think subordinationism on one side and modalistic monarchianism on the other.
I find the strangely indefinite way humans name things interesting, but I try to have a safe amount of disinterest in the actual denotations of the names themselves, especially the ones which seem to throw off paradoxes in every direction when you put your weight on them. Whatever they are, they weren’t built to be thought about in any depth.
What is it that they understand? Do they anticipate experiences caused by interaction with a person who claims to be a nihilist? That’s plausible. Do they fully understand the belief? That’s a different question.
Oh right, the idea that nihilism is self-refuting or logically contradictory. Maybe it is, but people still seem to understand what I’m talking about. I find that interesting, don’t you?
People “understand” contradictions all the time. See: the Trinity.
See I don’t understand why Christians think the trinity is a contradiction. “God is one person, composed of three other persons.” makes as much sense as “The China brain is one person, composed of a billion people” or “a subset is a set that is part of another set”. In programming, it’s easy to create an object that belongs to class X while also having component parts that belong to class X.
The problem is that the options you just alluded to are probably heresy: I think subordinationism on one side and modalistic monarchianism on the other.
I think the idea is that it’s supposed to be both the same being and different beings, and the logical contradiction is a Divine Mystery?
Or something like that.
To me, that just means that God is fractal
I find the strangely indefinite way humans name things interesting, but I try to have a safe amount of disinterest in the actual denotations of the names themselves, especially the ones which seem to throw off paradoxes in every direction when you put your weight on them. Whatever they are, they weren’t built to be thought about in any depth.
What is it that they understand? Do they anticipate experiences caused by interaction with a person who claims to be a nihilist? That’s plausible. Do they fully understand the belief? That’s a different question.