The assumption "Before thinking takes place, something must exist." eradicates need for saying "I think, therefore I exist." "I am, therefore I exist....
Who is everyone and where is the assumption? What reversal are you talking about? I was only putting the cart behind the horse, of which Descartes put...
If you read Kant's CPR, then he says our knowledge has limits. We don't have to know everything with 100% of certainty. Trying it would be futile exer...
We are excluding the existing things which don't think in the discussion. We are only talking about the existence which thinks i.e. humans in here. Be...
Yes, it seems a good explanation for the process of objectifying some subjective knowledge. There must be also the underlying principles for objectify...
Objective knowledge just means that it is the agreed knowledge publicly or academically. If you went to the garden, and found something scientific for...
It was a reply to your irrelevant sentence, you know for certain there exist no life in Mars. It is strange for one to deny any knowledge on what one ...
You are talking about totally something else. The point is how your point for getting lot of backings implied, the popular media backings rather than ...
You haven't shown any logical argument for your point. When it is logical arguments, you would have evidential or hypothetical premises before your co...
When I said "backing", I was meaning the logical arguments or scientific evidence, rather than the media backings. You said that your claim had a lot ...
In that case , aren't non-living things' consciousness different nature to the living things consciousness? They can't possibly be the same type, clas...
"The earth is flat." had more plenty of backings for far longer time. I was just pointing out "I think therefore I am." is illogical. The "think" has ...
Evidence or arguments or whatever. Your claims don't have any backings. "You think you don't exist, therefore you exist.", is a contradiction. For you...
Isn't your acceptance of all religions and the worldviews they offer as possibility contradiction to your true belief, which is an agnostic theist's v...
What are the evidences for the claims? Cogito was empty, so I put some contents to demonstrate anything can be put in as the content, even the content...
I was asking the relations between subjective and objective knowledge. How are they linked? Or are they linked at all? Is one pre-condition of the oth...
"Lived experience" sounds like a historical topic due to the word "Lived". What about "Having been lived"? And the "experience" is always someone's ex...
Why do you think it is possible Hinduism is true? What about Buddhism, Christianity? Hinduism has Karma and Maya. Christianity has Garden of Eden, the...
:nerd: :pray: Being is closely linked with temporality i.e. past present and future. Men is not just Being but Dasein viz "Being There in the world". ...
It is just a supporting observational fact, which saves further analysis, investigations and observations on the point for the conclusion. Inductive c...
The claim was based on the inductive principle, 1. that the most famous would-be existentialists were denying that they were the existentialists. 2. D...
Because life is intimately and inevitably linked to death, contemplating on death and life together would give insights on the meaning of life and how...
Please prove why the logic wouldn't work out. Heidegger doesn't seem to have had been interested in Existentialism. I haven't seen his comment on it. ...
Physically no, but metaphysically and logically? May be or why not? Cogito to "I exist" is a deductive leap, tautology or just monologue. Problem with...
Spinoza seems to have had been short-sighted in the saying about death. Death is a part of life. Death and life are not separate. Hence death must be ...
Has any existentialist ever existed? All the would-be and known existentialists in the history of philosophy have denied that they are the existential...
Why would it be possible? Do you believe in Hinduism? Are you a Hindu follower? If you are an agnostic atheist, then you could be a realist and possib...
Sounds correct. Existence is not free. Existence is random, contingent, limited and fated to become nothing. Not sure if we are IN our existence. Aren...
"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do."- Benjamin Spock Analysing the vague and obscure use of words and expressions, and clarifying th...
"I am thinking therefore I exist,* was so secure and certain* that it could not be shaken by any of the most extravagant suppositions of the sceptics,...
Isn't OUR existence devoid of freedom? Everyone on earth came with no choice of theirs. According to Heidegger, we are all thrown into the world by ch...
How do you prove an alien in your room in your imagination is not real? How do you prove the message you have been typing was not a part of your life ...
OK. It is good that you accept that at least your sentience is real. But looking at your 3 possibilities on the existence of yourself. 1. If you are a...
Isn't ontological freedom a misnomer? Ontology doesn't have anything to do with freedom. Ontology deals with the issues on existence i.e. what is to b...
Again this is a solipsistic statement, which is not saying much meaningful. Does it mean that if you imagined something, then it cannot exist? If you ...
Your post seem to be filled with contradictions. You state that your certainty is 100% due to your experience of you being conscious. But then you say...
Confidence is one's feelings and emotions on something. If your ground for certainty is based on your own feeling and emotion of confidence on your kn...
What is real? What is your confidence on your knowledge? For instance, does God exist? How did the universe begin? Are you confident on all the answer...
Could you define what "truth" and "certainty" is? That would help clarifying what you have been asking in the OP. I notice that this is an old OP, so ...
If truth is something that is unconcealed, that sounds like an implication for the existence of truth in the empirical world. Truths are hidden in the...
The question had been raised due to the comment in Szaif's article. But I also believe that ancient Greek had concept of Truth. It was just Szaif's po...
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