RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
September 17, 2015 at 4:32 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2015 at 4:35 pm by Rational AKD.)
(September 17, 2015 at 4:10 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: This is an appeal to consequences. It is impossible to prove idealism false. It's also impossible to prove idealism is true. The evidence for and against is equal. Agnosticism is the currently reasonable view.no it's not... I didn't say solipsism is definitely possible because the alternatives are unreasonable... I said the possibility of solipsism is the most reasonable answer because the alternatives are unreasonable. and as I said, agnosticism on this view implies nihilism which is self refuting thus unreasonable.
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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