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Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
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RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
(September 11, 2015 at 2:39 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: While I understand the logic behind this, the conclusions don't follow because the assumptions are not verifiable.  This isn't a reasoned argument as it's based on something that is impossible to test.  It's the same thing we as theists get blamed for when we bring up logical arguments for God.  Something that is not empirically verifiable. 
empirical evidence isn't the only type of evidence. the argument's premises are substantiated by the introspective evaluation of your own conscious experience, and certain laws of logic such as Leibniz Law of Indiscernibility of Identicals.

Ikingpinl Wrote:IMO, the argument stops after point #1. I cannot prove a negative
sure you can. if not possible A, then A is proven false. in any case, you do realize I was disproving a negative, right? I was eliminating the proposition of 'solipsism is impossible' as a reasonable escape. if it's impossible to prove a negative, then you already agree it's reasonable to accept solipsism is possible.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
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RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist - by Rational AKD - September 11, 2015 at 2:51 pm
RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist - by Cato - September 18, 2015 at 12:16 am

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