RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
November 17, 2016 at 10:07 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 10:07 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 17, 2016 at 9:54 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(November 17, 2016 at 2:54 pm)Alex K Wrote: Can the self be known to exist? I don't think it is obvious.
It depends what you mean by "exist." I take "self" as a label for qualia, and it's pretty apparent.
I have one sense of "existence" and two senses of "reality" in my metaphysics.
"Reality" can refer to non-imaginary as opposed to imaginary or to present as opposed to absent.
"Existence" can only refer to present as opposed to absent.
I distinguish between myself and my self. "Myself" just means me. "My self" means "my personality/ego/self-concept/self-image".
That's how I interpret the things that I refer to
