Sentences with phrase «conceivable knower»

And if discourse about a context devoid of objects is absurd, so must be discourse in a context devoid of subjects; the expression «There might have been nothing» could hardly be meaningful when no conceivable knower, not even God, could exist to confirm its truth (CSPM 57f; NTT 79, 83f; LP 87f).

So it is not just that to be is to be known, but also that to be significant (as an utterance) or possible (as the extralinguistic referent of an utterance) is to be so for some conceivable knower.

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The reason most persons would agree that a universe devoid of knowers is a possible state is because, although such a universe could never be known directly, it is conceivable; we can even meaningfully describe what would have to occur for such a universe to become actual; all minds would have to cease to be.