Tag: Philosophy
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Reframing Claim About Knowledge 1.0
Breadcrumbs: Philosophy/ItRaP/Epistemology/Knowledge Reframing Claim: Let’s consider Knowledge and Belief as mutually exclusive sets. The Traditional Structure In traditional western philosophy knowledge is usually considered to be true justified belief. It can be shown in the following Venn diagram. All of our beliefs are taken as a universal set. True beliefs are a subset of all…
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DEVLOG 5: Exciting Times
Strong progress continues on the project. There’s also excitement of getting into the actual philosophy now. Till now I was focused on explaining what I’m trying to do and why I’m doing it and pre-empting any objections. But all that is done for now and there’s excitement ahead. Completed Tasks Reflections Woohoo! Got a lot…
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DEVLOG 4: Trimming the Fat from the Kernel
Since the last devlog, there’s been significant progress—not just in the structure of my philosophical system, but also in how I’ve begun applying it to my own life. It started with a core question: What does it mean to live a meaningful life? I found myself challenging the traditional pursuit of “success” and realized that…
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A Simple Introduction to My Project
I’ve tried to explain what I’m doing on the Home page and the Start Here page. But I realize now that it still might be confusing to a new visitor: What exactly is this project? As Einstein (supposedly) said, “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Every time I try…
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Devlog 3: Focusing on the Process Instead of the Result
Completed Tasks Lessons Learned I started this, almost a month long period, by deciding to focus on the YouTube video on absurdism that I’ve been working on, but soon I changed my mind and continued to work on both YouTube and philosophy. I started working on the ItRaN page and moved some stuff from the…
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Raw Journal Entry: Testing My Philosophy in Real Life
I had the longest phase of bad days since I started this whole thing (being positive and working consistently on my philosophy plan) a couple of months ago. It began by waking up a little bit late and missing workout for a couple of days. The next two days I woke up on time but…
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Devlog 2: Learning to Pace Myself
Completed Tasks Lessons Learned I learned that I need to pace myself in developing this philosophy. There is so much I have already written and thought about that sometimes it makes me want to rush through it all. If I do that, it’ll come across like the ramblings of a mad man. (Even more than…
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What I’ve Learned from Bronze Age Steppe Horse Lords
Childhood Fascination As a child, when I read about Alexander and his quest to rule the world, I realized that he had reached my nook of the world in the Western Himalayas before his soldiers refused to go any further and he had to turn back. Some of his soldiers decided not to go back…
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Devlog 1: Gaining Confidence in My Project
It’s only been a week since I officially started building my philosophical system, but I’ve already developed a lot of clarity over my main argument and my confidence that I’m doing something valuable has grown. Front Page The front page of the website is done, for now. The good thing about an iterative system is…
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Why Nihilism?
Heartbreak When I was 16 years old, I fell in love and got my heart broken. Teenagers deal with their first heartbreak in many ways but I chose to deal with it by diving into philosophy and asking myself some deep questions: What is love? What is life? Why am I alive? What am I…
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Rudya Aditya 