RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
November 18, 2016 at 7:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2016 at 7:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 18, 2016 at 7:28 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(November 18, 2016 at 7:06 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It doesn't really get interesting until you step out of solipsism and invoke concepts and things that would argue against that famed lack of certainty. Things like me. Things like "other things". Atoms. Typing, keyboards, disparate localities, etc.
I dunno, dude. If you have to "invoke" ideas in order to lay a foundation for reality,
Not much of a problem for me in the context above, I'm not a solipsist, I'm free to play with as many ideas that refer to something other than my self as I wish. The moment a solipsist "steps out", however, they begin to argue against the premise of solipsism. In effect, reducing it to triviality even if true.
Quote:you're probably just making philosophical assumptions.I don't consider the things my senses tell me to be assumptions, though I make many assumptions about them.
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