RE: How to beat a presupp at their own game
March 18, 2021 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2021 at 2:52 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
When I’m asked how I know I exist, I punch the questioner in the face. If he falls down shrieking and bleeding, that should be sufficient empirical evidence.
Seriously, though, it’s one of those non-questions that philosopher dream up to help pay the freight.
If I actually exist in the mundane sense, nothing changes.
If I exist in some sort of dream or simulation, nothing changes.
If I don’t exist in any meaningful sense of the word, guess what? Nothing changes.
The day-in/day-out of my life is enough to go on. I don’t really care to spend a significant amount of time wondering whether it’s all an illusion.
To paraphrase Descartes, ‘Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.’
Boru
Seriously, though, it’s one of those non-questions that philosopher dream up to help pay the freight.
If I actually exist in the mundane sense, nothing changes.
If I exist in some sort of dream or simulation, nothing changes.
If I don’t exist in any meaningful sense of the word, guess what? Nothing changes.
The day-in/day-out of my life is enough to go on. I don’t really care to spend a significant amount of time wondering whether it’s all an illusion.
To paraphrase Descartes, ‘Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.’
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
