(June 10, 2021 at 3:18 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(June 10, 2021 at 3:10 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Of course I can't. I think you misunderstand what I am getting at. I can't demonstrate independently of the theistic premise that other minds exist. My argument is, instead, as follows:
P1 : a theist thinks that a god exists. an atheist doesn't.
P2 : the axiom "God exists" solves hard solipsism
Not if you can’t demonstrate it. That’s no more effective than saying:
P2 : The axiom “hard solipsism is false” solves the problem of hard solipsism.
Well, the axiom "hard solipsism is false" is exactly equivalent to "There is certainly at least one mind other mine", which is not very far from the necessary being we usually call God. All other contingent beings can't be shown to exist by logical arguments.