(February 2, 2015 at 9:15 am)Rhythm Wrote: Those aren't facts at all AKD - those are your assertions.exactly which one of those are merely asserted and not proven?
1. you are conscious and you cannot doubt this because doubting requires consciousness.
this is Cartesian Skepticism as proven by René Descartes. this is not disputed among philosophers.
2. it is possible for you to exist a world where everything is mental (like your dreams)
it is not disputed that your dreams do not have material objects yet appear to be material. what's your objection with this?
3. it is not possible for you to exist in a world without consciousness (as you are conscious).
you are a conscious being. it should be evident that you cannot exist in a would without consciousness.
4. therefore it is not necessary to postulate physical substances to explain our experience
follows from the premises. what exactly is not proven here?
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo
