(August 3, 2015 at 2:26 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:(August 3, 2015 at 2:22 pm)robvalue Wrote: Very nice questions.
The one that plagues me, and I fear will always plague me, is will it ever be possible for me to be sure anyone but me is real. I have virtually resigned myself to the answer being no. I can't see a way round it, but I live in hope.
Yet I don't let it stop me from treating all these possible figments of imagination as well as I would if they were real for certain
What in God's name would I be a simulacrum of ?
An interesting person, obviously.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
