What are some absolute truths that exist independently?

Question

Are there some facts, if any, that are true regardless of whether matter, consciousness or living organisms exist?

bell-cot · Accepted Answer

What sorts of facts might you mean? "2 + 2 = 4"? "This universe is all that physically exists"? Conservation of energy? Moral or theological assertions?

psyc · Answer

To the best of my ability to reason about this, logic does. Whether it's dependent on my ability to reason about it, is beyond my ability to reason about.

thanatos519 · Answer

It's impossible for things to exist in the manner in which your question implies that they might.

dave4420 · Answer

If no consciousness existed, who or what would judge whether a statement was a fact?

mshumi · Answer

To encode NOT something takes one more bit than encoding something.

Procedural · Answer

Yes.