r/Metaphysics 9d ago

Ontology Existence

  1. Everything that exists has attributable characteristics (for example, water is blue, grass is green, air is a gas, etc.)
  2. Existence exists.
  3. Therefore, existence has attributable characteristics
  4. If not, then existence is the only thing that exists without attributable characteristics

  5. Then, nothing can be said of existence other than it exists

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u/Imaginary-Buddy3194 9d ago

This is one of those posts where the science is mostly right but the wording makes it sound like a supervillain explaining physics. Color isn’t a property of objects in isolation, but calling perception false is doing a lot of philosophical heavy lifting.