Ontological Absoluteness

Going back to this topic from long ago, not being myself a fan of Wittgenstein, I would refer all to Carnap, whose position on ontology I think clear and sensible.

It is articulated most concisely perhaps in his paper "Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology", though the internal/external distinction for ontological questions which he introduced here was not well-received.

Anyway, its relevance here is that it provides a basis for affirming the objectivity of set theoretic truths (internal) without accepting that questions about what sets exists have any absolute truth value (these would be external questions).

More on this belongs perhaps at Carnap Corner.

Giving up. Or not.

I pretty much gave up.

Not without good cause.  Too many years of wanting but failing to articulate.

A lot of that is down to a taciturn nature.
I don't talk, so naturally, I don't write.

The other factor is lack of audience.  There is no audience which wants to hear the message I want to deliver, and partly for that reason, non that I could hope will even understand it.

I won't delve deeper into the pathology.

So why am I here?

Well, I tried to give up, but failed.
Failed to find an alternative (one must surely do something?).