RE: Is the self all that can be known to exist?
November 18, 2016 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2016 at 4:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 18, 2016 at 3:56 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: This is not like god claims, though, Rhythm. If you do indeed experience reality, then the self, -your- "self" is a given.Without quantification, it is. The god botherers claim to have experienced god, too. Does that make it a given?
Quote: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).Based upon what? That you experience it? You experience many other things as well....things which you are about to deny. I asked this at the very begining. If experience stands as testament to the existence of the self, why does it not stand testament to the existence of the other stuff?
Quote: 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.Meh. Like I said, I don't know if it's obvious..I actually do think it needs explaining (though, granted, not to exist)....and even if it is, it appears to be wildly inaccurate.
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