(November 18, 2016 at 3:51 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(November 18, 2016 at 3:44 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: How can you doubt its existence even as you experience it? What kind of logic is that?It wouldn't be the first time I've experienced something that doesn't exist, or at least doesn't exist as I experience it.
(November 18, 2016 at 3:45 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: How something operates and whether it exists are two separate questions that require vastly different explanations. Yet you're pretending like in order to -know- that something exists, you have to first quantify it, which is nonsense.I can privately claim to "know" a great many things,but without a way to quantify it it remains private knowledge, and not at all like other sorts of knowledge. God botherers know their god is real too...they just have trouble quantifying it.
This is not like god claims, though, Rhythm. If you do indeed experience reality, then the self, -your- "self" is a given.
It's true that we can't prove it objectively to others, but solipsism doesn't endeavor to make that claim. It makes two separate claims, rather. That there is such a thing as the self(it exists). And that this is the only truly certain piece of knowledge we can ever have about the world. Everything else is anyone's guess, but experience itself, and subsequently the experiencer, "the self", is obvious. It doesn't need explaining. It's self-explanatory.
Make sure to read my updated reply from above as well. Thank you
