(January 9, 2013 at 6:23 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: "You can't prove I'm real and you can't prove you're real so you just gotta take it on faith!"
There is one word that describes this "philosophy": Solipsism
Solipsism is ironically both technically true and also stupid to spend any time seriously thinking about, unless of course you're writing a sci-fi story.
Solipsism is the belief that the only thing you can be certain of is that you are experiencing sensations (sight, hearing, touch, etc) that might or might not be real and you have memories that might or might not be accurate. For all you know, everything outside of you could just be an illusion.
See "The Matrix" or "Total Recall" for how this view can be useful in writing a sci-fi story. Outside of this application, it's useless, including in philosophical discussions.
We have to assume that reality that we experience is real in order to function. There is a difference between this assumption about things that are detected and making additional assumptions about things that are NOT detected.
Hope that helps.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
