(November 1, 2016 at 3:29 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You don't know that you're not a brain-in-a-vat. Solipsism is both a logically unassailable position to take, and a completely useless one, so it is taken as axiomatic that our experience of reality is a rough approximation of what is real. It's not practically unassailable, however - because of it's uselessness.
When someone appeals to solipsism, it's time to point and laugh.
Yep.
There is no answer to hard solipsism.
The thing is, that the presup is also trapped into the same position, of having to use his reason to justify his reason, to believe in his god.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
