The truth about the world

There’s a kind of dull men, whose bodies secret an excess of phlegm. These men are called “skeptics”. They say that there’s no truth about the world. But, if there’s no truth about the world, their assertion is false. So there’s at least one truth. This is what I’m going to reveal to you in this article.

Let M be the actual world. Let “a” be an object of our world, for instance this pen. Let us suppose “a” was a meinongian object (i.e. impossible). But if “a” is impossible, and if “a” belongs to M, then M is also impossible.

But, you will say, this pen is a real object, so M is at least possible.

Let M be the actual world. Let “b” be an object of our world, such as a square circle. Obviously, “b” is a meinongian object “by definition”. But, obviously again, “b” belongs to M. So M is impossible.

But, you will tell me, square circles aren’t real entities; they’re rather rational entities.

There are two very strong arguments against this critique.

1. Firstly, many particles used by the physics are rational entities. Quarks, for example, which are believed to be the fundamental bricks of the (real) material world, are rational entities.
2. Secondly, the dichotomy real / rational only makes sense for a Hegelian.

There is therefore no reason to deny the truth about the world:

THE ACTUAL WORLD, AS WE KNOW IT, IS IMPOSSIBLE.

Consequences

• Since we know this world (as little as we might know it), and since this world is impossible, out knowledge is impossible.
• Given that our knowledge is impossible and that we yet know something, we ourselves are impossible.