Philosophical Originality (Part 1): Laying The Groundwork

There are specific philosophical truths that literally any conscious person can grasp not just with indirect, obscure awareness that they can never truly escape from, but that they can directly comprehend at will, as with logical axioms.  The fact that something is true and therefore some ideas are false is one of them.  The fact that some things logically follow from others is another.  In the case of these examples, the utterly basic and self-affirming nature of the truths can be realized by anyone and can never be truly avoided: every idea at all, even self-contradictory ones, will hinge on these and other axioms.  Anyone who sincerely tries can recognize these truths and prove them to their own self with or without aid from others, and the basic epistemological and metaphysical centrality of logical axioms in all things is not shallow or unimportant in any way just because they are the first step, the sole starting point for all things.

I have written at great length about all of this so far, and I will continue to emphasize them in the name of rationalism.  There are other truths that hinge on logical axioms that can also be extremely precise.  The more philosophically specific one is, the less likely it is for non-rationalists to even be able to understand what one is trying to convey to them.  Most people only discuss or seem to think about issues that ultimately fall in the approximate middle of the spectrum of provable philosophical facts, with knowledge of the self-verifying logical axioms that cannot be false at the start of the spectrum and hyper-specific but demonstrable logical truths about a wide variety of concepts and experiences at the other end.  Now, there are logical truths all over this spectrum that any person is capable of discovering completely on their own or evaluating completely on their own even if they happen to be introduced by someone else, and plenty of philosophical issues also stem from experiences that logic alone would not lead someone to despite being what makes facts and knowledge possible in the first place.  Even further, there are things that even not all rationalists might discover.

There are knowable philosophical facts that are specific, paradoxical, or deep enough to go beyond the majority of what holds cultural spotlights in any era while still being significant for far more reasons than mere originality in terms of novelty or autonomy--precise logical facts that not only have historical and contemporary philosophers not given any evidence of even approaching, but that many of them have specifically contradicted, knowingly or unknowingly.  Many genuine, important logical truths about underlying topics and concepts could even be understood perfectly with absolute certainty without someone realizing these things!  That the laws of logic are the only thing that has to metaphysically exist due to its own inherent nature without connection to anything else, that God could cease to exist at any time, that lingerie is objectively nonsexual, and that the Bible does not condemn all kinds and uses of erotic media (visual or otherwise) inside or outside of marriage are just a handful of miscellaneous examples, each of these having grand ramifications that can be further pinpointed and savored.

Someone could realize to himself or herself that logic is inherently true without realizing that this means it must exist regardless of what else does.  Someone could realize that bikinis and male clothing that exposes the upper torso are objectively nonsexual without realizing that lingerie must be nonsexual for the same reasons, no matter how it is perceived, treated, or worn.  Someone could realize that the Biblical condemnation of lust refers to coveting another person's actual spouse, and thus does not refer to sexual attraction to someone other than one's spouse or intentional delight in that attraction, without realizing that it follows from this that erotic media featuring nonsinful sexual acts cannot be an immoral thing to use inside or outside of a marriage.  However, there are even more precise truths than the aforementioned kind that I have discovered, and they are the focus of this series.

I may not publish whatever post comes next in this series at a given point quickly; I am still deciding if I want to fully reveal each of the most precise facts integrated into my worldview, logical facts there is evidence I may be the first to have conceived of.  Still, I want to come forward with them with explicit directness at some time!  The goal of writing this series is not self-satisfaction, although discovering these on my own has been a very empowering side effect of my rationalism and personal experiences, nor is the goal to make even fellow rationalists that might have just scarcely moved past understanding why logical axioms must be true feel inadequate.  No one has to discover the truths focused on in this series after this point in order to be perfectly intelligent, autonomous, and consistent.  Indeed, that is one of the reasons why I want to come forward with these!  They are wholly unheard of in academia and historical records and even the few true rationalists I am close friends with had never thought of them before I mentioned them out of curiosity (and because of their deep importance).