(September 14, 2015 at 3:08 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: It doesn't follow that because the existence of a solipsistic world can't be proven false that it is therefore possible. There can be reasons why it can't be proven false in spite of it actually being a false proposition. Just as in math, that there are propositions which can't be proven to be true doesn't imply that they are false. Inability to disprove solipsism doesn't imply that it is possible. The two properties, provability and possibility, are not directly related. Just as material mind must be directly evidenced, so solipsism requires direct argument for its possibility.
Moreover, you're assuming that a full explanation of mind won't show how matter is essential to mind. That's an argument from ignorance.
that's why premise 2 states it's unreasonable to presume it's impossible therefore it must be reasonably granted possible. it's saying it's unreasonable to believe what is impossible to prove. would you disagree?
and no, i'm not assuming that a full explanation of mind won't show how matter is essential to mind. i'm just saying matter isn't necessary within the concept of introspection, which is why there is no firm defeater for solipsism.
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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