(May 11, 2012 at 7:52 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:You can easily prove your own existence!
Not sure that's actually ever been done. Not everyone accepts Rene Descartes' "cognito ergo sum". Me? I'm agnostic on the matter,but lean towards the positive.
Of course you may have another argument ,which I would probably find incomprehensible; I barely grasp the criticisms of Descartes.
When it comes to proving my existence to a skeptic, I propose the following proof: I simply slap the skeptic upside the head until he acquiesces to my argument.
Crude, but effective and undeniable to a skeptic.
As to the problem of proving it to myself, I see little reason to doubt the matter, and am willing to accept my own existence as axiomatic to a high degree of probability.
...but that's only because I'm not in the mood to kick my own ass.
