(September 15, 2015 at 1:55 pm)robvalue Wrote: So if a mind is imagining matter, does that matter exist?in a dream, you are correct. it doesn't make sense to say your dream objects exist. but the difference between an idealist world and a dream is the contents aren't solely derived from your mind. they can still affect your well being as well as others. that's what makes it meaningful to say they exist.
I'd say "existence" is one of the hardest words to meaningfully define. In a dream world for example, either everything in it "exists" or nothing does, I should think.
If you are indeed dreaming about me, you have my sincerest apologies.
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
-Galileo
