Authoritative Disambiguation

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This is a warning against dogma in all its forms and guises. Let beauty and harmony be our authority in our yearning for order.

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[Delocrates]

A desire to overcome ambiguity does not always involve a desire to want to be authoritative, sometimes it comes from a genuine desire to want to understand the truth of things. One can also say that ambiguity is sometimes used as a psychological technique of manipulation and dissimulation (i.e., we conceal our own real thoughts, feelings and intentions by being ambiguous as a means to manipulate and deceive others).

[Professoranton]

I agree but are you sure that truth sits still? and might life be an ambiguous truth?

[zarkoff45]

The world isn't so much "ambiguous" as it is unknown and even, perhaps, unknowable. It is our minds that creates and deals with ambiguity.

[Professoranton]

Minds are part of the world.

[TheDarkeJ]

Choice? Here is my point, what defines us is what happens when given a choice, that we cannot actually choose. Also relate this to the man in a ditch needing help..my answer to this? Well, by what I just said, I will act as what defines me dictates, depending on the circumstance, because that guy in the ditch may have a gun ready to use against me. peace, be yourself!

[TheDarkeJ]

Let me run this by ya'll, Ambiguity seems to me to be something that implies 2 choices, say fight/flight, if one of those choices is made, it would define us in a way acceptable by society, but, if we make a choice not in the realm of ambiguity, but between it, then we define ourselves! This gives, as much as anything, an answer to the question, 'who am I?'. I yell, or 'stand firm' when my body is suddenly hit with the adrenaline, which society dictates a choice must be made. -more-

[ScrewSDK]

I'm very confused, I don't know If I learned anything or if anything learned me? ...all this video basically told me was that - Blue is a color or is the color Blue...? Most confusing video on YouTube!

[ScrewSDK]

What does Disambiguation mean? What is it?

[Gabriel Land]

Try to rely on yourself to get places rather than pacing that responsibility on a youtube video.

[CaitlinIntolerant]

Dis-ambiguous ambiguousness tomfoolery brouhaha.

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Your video got me absolutely nowhere.

[ironmonkeyheller]

Here's a little example of "dogmatic" truth (which your own statements have to be also):

I perceive. In order to perceive I must be conscious. I exist at least as a consciousness.

Is consciousness ambiguous? Can one who perceives not be conscious?

[ironmonkeyheller]

Great job Ranton. Ambiguities exist! But not all of existence is ambiguous. Rationality has nothing to say about ambiguous ideas, so why do you act like pointing them out somehow disproves rationality? If all existence is ambiguous, how can you even make statements? Oh those statements are ambiguous, the opposite could be true, you could be totally wrong, etc.

Nothing does not exist.

Existence is not ambiguous.

Truth exists.

Your own statements opposing these ideas disprove themselves.

[Delocrates]

Ambiguity tends to exist more in the meaning and interpretation of certain truths, yet not all truths have an ambiguous nature. Many truths in the form of facts have a certainty to them, for example, I am completely certain that you and I will die at a certain point in time in the sense that our hearts will stop beating and our physical forms will alter. I do not deny that ambiguity exists in many forms, yet a good philosopher must at least attempt to analyze and describe them.