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People have always and will always think that the time they are living in is the most important time ever. This is a self evident fallacy or a universal truth.
by thinkingemote 5y ago
People have always and will always think that the time they are living in is the most important time ever. This is a self evident fallacy or a universal truth.
These times we are living in are not the most important. Or, of they are, then everyone everywhere is at everytime living at the same importance.
Now, there is something called the hinge of history that some mathematicians have looked into the chance of "well right now is most important, people in the past and future are delusional". The chances are very very low.
Think of this the next time you hear someone appeal to urgency as political motivation.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoBut… we do live in the most important time. We’re alive, and everyone else is dead. We can do things; they can’t. I don’t know what’s more important than that.
- tempestn 5y agoYour parent covers that under, (paraphrasing) 'if we are, everyone always is'.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoThat’s true. But isn’t that tautology? Either it’s the most important or unimportant.
- mdp2021 5y ago> Either... Logic of natural language does not work that way. It's paraconsistent: statements are attributed a value within T(A)^T(¬A), T(A)^F(¬A), F(A)^T(¬A), F(A)^F(¬A) because we judge meanings, interpretations, multiple per expression.
- _zywo 5y agoMy life may not be the most important time to other people, but it is the most important time to me. Importance is relative.
- barry-cotter 5y agoI’m impressed. This is denying the existence of something that must exist by construction, like denying there can be three things when you know the concept of 100, 0 and counting.
- morninglight 5y agoEveryone who ever lived thought they were in the "the most important time". However, our generation is the first to be capable of totally destroying human civilization. That makes us somewhat special. .