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Oct. 11th, 2005 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionThe five skepticisms: of being, knowing, saying, willing and sensing (these last AKA determinism and solipsism respectively). I don't believe in any of these not-believings (a sixth skepticism, skepticism-skepticism?); yes, people have died to keep believing they didn't believe in these basics, but they never stopped believing in them.
Can thinking/reasoning be one more? I think it's subsumed under knowing. Or saying.
Those not peer-pressured into adopting these come to them on their own, always for defense. Adopting one but unhappily--does this entail craving one aspect (certainty, say; getting to give up) but balking at others? Notice no one would move on to these if they could accept the apathies of the liar or nonsense-spouter. The most irritating of phenomena is when a skeptic senses a leak in her skepticism and tosses in some "you can't/won't stop me" responses to fill the breach; unless that would be the mad palace of misconnections and spreadings of language she produces afterward to assimilate that burst of infantine chaos.
Distraction is a more primal defense than skepticism, which is essentially an argument. Though arguments themselves may be just distractions that proved durable. Well, not just.
Can thinking/reasoning be one more? I think it's subsumed under knowing. Or saying.
Those not peer-pressured into adopting these come to them on their own, always for defense. Adopting one but unhappily--does this entail craving one aspect (certainty, say; getting to give up) but balking at others? Notice no one would move on to these if they could accept the apathies of the liar or nonsense-spouter. The most irritating of phenomena is when a skeptic senses a leak in her skepticism and tosses in some "you can't/won't stop me" responses to fill the breach; unless that would be the mad palace of misconnections and spreadings of language she produces afterward to assimilate that burst of infantine chaos.
Distraction is a more primal defense than skepticism, which is essentially an argument. Though arguments themselves may be just distractions that proved durable. Well, not just.
