RE: Is There Any Point In Solipsism?
November 2, 2011 at 5:36 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2011 at 5:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
As an example for the opposite of "quality". Surprised no ones brought this up yet. Logic does give us some very persuasive arguments that would seem flatly against common sense. The argument for solipsism, and the argument against inductive reasoning are two prime examples. Ultimately it helps to understand that the way we describe logic is simply a system of ordering our own thoughts along lines of how the universe appears to behave. Each fallacy that someone might know the name of now was once a discovery, prior to that those fallacies were thought valid arguments.
It's just as likely, when dealing with the problems of solipsism or induction, that our understanding of the variables in the argument are flawed. Of course this is an argument with elements of solipsism itself. Funny how that works out. As I mentioned jokingly, whether or not the argument for solipsism is factually accurate would be a moot point, since the world in our proposed minds very much seems to operate on principles that lead us to believe that we, and a whole host of other shit, actually do exist. The same for induction. It works. These problems could easily be problems of logic, more specifically they could be problems of human perception and intellect. Nonetheless, they can be fun to knock around.
Claims like that of the solipsist are exactly why we are no longer satisfied with logic alone and instead have built a more elaborate system of accumulating knowledge.
It's just as likely, when dealing with the problems of solipsism or induction, that our understanding of the variables in the argument are flawed. Of course this is an argument with elements of solipsism itself. Funny how that works out. As I mentioned jokingly, whether or not the argument for solipsism is factually accurate would be a moot point, since the world in our proposed minds very much seems to operate on principles that lead us to believe that we, and a whole host of other shit, actually do exist. The same for induction. It works. These problems could easily be problems of logic, more specifically they could be problems of human perception and intellect. Nonetheless, they can be fun to knock around.
Claims like that of the solipsist are exactly why we are no longer satisfied with logic alone and instead have built a more elaborate system of accumulating knowledge.
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