(August 14, 2016 at 5:50 pm)bennyboy Wrote: @OP: Please don't paste stuff from Word or other programs. It makes it very hard to quote your post.
"I exist and I am a mind. Therefore, Minds exist."
-This is already a false conclusion. The correct conclusion is "At least one mind exists. . . mine."
"I have feelings. These feelings originate from sensors in what I call my body. "
-You are confusing observations with conclusions.
"My body needs space and matter in general needs space. Matter can exist only in space. Therefore, space must exist."
-. . . and now the non sequitur of the previous statement propagates into a world view. You have gone from "what I call my body" to "my body," jumping from a label for experience to an accepted fact about reality. You might not even be wrong, but your way of establishing a philosophical foundation isn't working.
"My body needs time to change and matter in general needs time for change. Matter can change only in time. Therefore, time must exist."
-So far, literally every point you've made except the first is non sequitur. You haven't showed how you've gone beyond the solipsist position that you started with. Basically, you've said, "I think a bunch of stuff. . . so all this other stuff must be factually true."
Thanks for this, did not notice this response before. You are right in saying the statements are non sequitur (had to google to see what that meant) However I am not saying one follows from another logically. I am presenting each statement as an axiom.
