(July 13, 2015 at 12:22 am)JuliaL Wrote:(July 13, 2015 at 12:18 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Isn't this a bit solipsistic? The universe exist out of our experiences. That's like saying color doesn't exist because I can't see.
I think I go back to Hume on this.
You can't show that color does exist without you, but you can act as if it does. We all do.
There are other senses humans don't have; bees see ultraviolet, bats echolocate, sharks sense electromuscular activity.
At least we infer that they have these senses from their behavior. But there could be others as well.
How do we know how many other senses exist?
We don't.
So do they exist or not?
You have convinced me, nothing exists, even if we perceive it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
