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Originally Posted by UbuntuniX  Can there be absence without existence?
For example:
There is no war. There was no war. There never will be war.
Is there peace? Yes, there is absence of war, but without war, there could be no peace.
There is no war. There is no peace. So, are we left in a void, with no knowledge, existence, or conception of what will never be?
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a la Wittgensteins's Private Language argument . . . An American dude called Avrum Stroll wrote a book comparing Wittgenstein's epistemology and that of G.E.Moore, a fellow philosopher at Cambridge. It is a fantastic introduction to Wittgenstein, and shows Wittgenstein's thinking about language, knowledge and certainty. Thoroughly recommended, although ignore the last chapter when Stroll seems to lose the plot. Obviously far to profound for me to fully understand so I couldn't possibly paraphrase it here . . .