Journeyman Philosopher

In the last post Digglu responded to me with the comment:

There is only one truth, and that is that I exist. Yay for solipsism. In any case, there may be “truths”, but they’re all based on assumptions, which may be faulty. Since those assumptions are based on opinion, all of philosophy is basically opinion.

This does address one point in which I failed to address. It is true that there is a base assumption that starts out certain presumptions, however what I failed to mention is that this as well is a problem inherent in all things.

“Let’s go to the store guys!” assumes that there is a store, you can go to it, you exist, etc etc… An engineer when building a bridge would assume that the laws that hold the universe together will still apply after he builds the bridge.

Everything that we do requires an assumption the only difference is that philosophical enterprise readily acknowledges this. So yes, to Digglu, philosophy may be initially based in assumptions (Ex. I exist), however it is just as based in assumptions as any other common sense enterprise such as walking, breathing, living, etc. And as so saying something is ‘based’ in opinions seems to over emphasize the importance of this point.