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I doubt it too. But reason is cunning enough to be able to speculate the non-existence of the world without it being part of the world, couldn't it? F...

Your own opinions and views are most appreciated, but there is no reason why you shouldn't agree to, or follow the historical philosopher's views, ide...

I was reading a paper on Nietzsche's metaphysics and epistemology last night, and apparently he was very much into Kant's TI in the beginning. The pap...

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No probs mate. But what is your proof that what you are seeing, and going through in your life is not a long vivid dream or some realistic illusion or...

Fair enough. All I wanted to see was the philosophical arguments for believing in the world when not perceiving it. But the peripheral arguments, pers...

Good point. :chin:

Interesting you mentioned QM. In QM there are theories saying that some states, objects or entities only come to existence when observed externally. h...

A great post Count Tim. :up: Hegel is one of my favorite Philosophers. I will do some reading on him this week, and will get back to you after some mu...

The OP was not claiming the world doesn't exist. It was seeking the reason for your believing in the world when not perceiving it. Reason is not a bei...

Any relevant quotes on that point from Nietzsche?

But they are not exactly what we call perceptions in epistemic sense, are they?

Wasn't Berkeley an idealist who believed the external world doesn't exist at all? I understood that Idealists believe the world is perception, and the...

Isn't doubting part of reasoning? Isn't it natural for reason to doubt when there is not enough evidence or ground in believing something?

You are the one who crashed into this thread with the pendulum claiming untrue statements without even knowing what the point of the discussion was. P...

Yes, it is interesting topics to engage the discussion in philosophically. It can make the whole thread look like sceptical discussion at times, but i...

Stretching it too far. Hope it is not your projection defence mechanism activation.

hmmm the discussion was neither about the earth rotation nor the pendulum. It was about the logical ground of belief in the existence of the world. Bu...

You suddenly brought the pendulum into the discussion out of the blue saying that, I was not paying attention, and it is problem. And I was just sayin...

Yes, things in the external world change, disappear, and new objects appear on the earth. It is the reality, but we may not perceive them directly or ...

You seem to have habit of confusing tools with the object to be observed. Anyhow we were not talking about the pendulum at all, but the visual unobser...

Really? Fascinating. Thank you for your effort writing the substantial post on Nietzsche in conjunction with the topic. I have not been reading him fo...

You are confused again between the actual earth and the pendulum. :roll:

"It is still the case that you have mediate reason to believe a priori, in the existence of the world, iff you’ve a set of cognitions from antecedent ...

You cannot observe the earth rotating around visually sitting on any point on the earth. :)

My example was against your point that you would rather take a more supported and seeming option rather than a less supported and unlikely option. The...

That sounds like a statement from misunderstanding existence from motion. Anyway, the earth rotating the Sun was purely found out by the Mathematical ...

Could you prove why the belief in the world's existence is prior to any doubt on behalf of Hume? Do you believe he is justified in saying that? i.e. w...

Wouldn't it be like saying that the earth looks more flat than round, so it must be flat. It looks like the Sun is rotating the earth, so the Sun is r...

I wasn't demanding a warrant for accepting the existence of the world, but was asking the reasons for your accepting the existence of the world. i.e. ...

"a nihilistic aim"? Doesn't it sounds like a contradiction? When nihilist has aim, doesn't he stop being a nihilist? What was the reasons for him doin...

I have read about this from a neurology paper, and was agreeing to its point fully. But then my memory is vivid and fresh enough to catch up that mome...

I think it is a quite good article on Kant. Lately I wanted to read some new and different commentaries and views on Kant, instead of the traditional ...

But didn't even Neitzsche believed that the ultimate knowledge of the true reality was impossible to achieve? In that sense, wasn't he also a sceptic?...

But can the world be the object of a priori knowledge? When you say precedent perception, could it be memory? Doesn't memory tend to be unreliable for...

Hello Javi. Thanks for your quotes from the article, and points. It is very helpful, and interesting. It is interesting that the author of the article...

Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics by Catalina González Quintero (Author) The book is divided into three parts...

So what are our perceptions based on, if not on the logical inference? I don't have to refuse or agree to believe. But could I not just say I don't ha...

It sounds like you had a real vivid dream, which felt to you like real life happening. When you woke up, and tried to verify if it was a real life eve...

When one is alive, and perceiving the world, of course, one believes in the existence of the world, because one has the ground for believing in the ex...

So what are your reasons and proofs for believing the world exists, when you are not perceiving it? What is the ground that says, something isn't real...

I am interested in seeing the logical reasons for believing in existence of the world or objects without perceiving them. It is not about the actual w...

But isn't Philosophy about finding out the nature of the world, our knowledge of the world, and the limitation / boundary of our knowledge? What would...

Sure. A great point. :up: Although I recall Hume had problem with induction for being circular or question-begging type of reasoning. From my point of...

So let me ask you this time. I have asked you this question many times, but you have never answered for it yet. What is your reason to believe in the ...

Wouldn't it be due to the nature of our reason? When reason reflects on itself, it cannot fail to notice the problems in the existence and the knowled...

I would go with Hume. There is no reason to believe in anything when I don't perceive, be it the world or myself. That doesn't mean that I don't belie...

It was just a passing impression. Not a judgement. No worries. I had to answer the similar question on the other thread. I understand Hume's scepticis...

Of course, I see the cup when I turn and look at the cup. The perception is coming in vividly. But do you not see the difference that there is now the...