Posted: Mar 30, 2012 12:45 am
jamest wrote:asdfjkl wrote:ok one thing which rly sometimes freaks me out and makes me solipsistic is how you can't deny the self evident.
so sometimes it seems like the proposition "something other than the self-evident exists" is just as ludicrous as "something that is self-evident doesn't exist" such as denial of existence of self.
anyone get this ever?
What's 'self evident' is open to debate, since the observation of something doesn't equate to the reality of that thing itself. That is self-evident... to reason.
You keep going on about self-evidence as though observation were the key to existential knowledge. It's not, so where does that leave your 'self evidence'?
but with solipsism reality of the thing=observation of the thing
so no extra non self evident elements/things
wouldnt that be simplest?