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Are there any philosophical proofs of soul and spirit?? (leminal.space)
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Thing is that, I know it can't be proven by science as soul and spirit are something beyond like science can't answer that. I think that there is something called soul and spirit but I am very naive enough to understand what exactly are they. Those who believe, can you pls give me proofs like not scientific, but logical, metaphysical.

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[โ€“] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interestingly, Descartes wrote in the margin "we cannot doubt our existence while we doubt."

Tautology is a form of circular reasoning where you define something as a thing and use the definition to prove it. For example, if I said "all balls are round," you might suggest that you could make a ball out of a cube, or force a ball into a cube shape, disproving my statement. "Aha, but once it is a cube, it ceases to be a ball!" That's a tautological argument. I haven't proven my statement, I have merely defined the statement as true and applied it as truth in my defense.

If you don't have faith, why are you in a religion community asking about souls?

[โ€“] Naive@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

I don't know. I just feel that like there is something above me that makes myself that is soul and spirit!! I don't know. But I fear spirits to this day idk why. But in human, i don't know what is spirit? I think soul and spirit are same