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Old 01-05-2003, 11:34 AM   #1
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How can we tell that each other exist? I can tell I exist because of those immortal words, "I think therefore I am" but this doesn't prove whether or not anyone else exists. For all I know you could all be figments of my imagination but I can't prove or disprove this so I need to believe, not know.

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Old 01-05-2003, 11:35 AM   #2
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I just posted here, therefore i exist. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
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Old 01-05-2003, 11:47 AM   #3
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I posted here, therfore my post exists! [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Old 01-05-2003, 12:02 PM   #4
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Old 01-05-2003, 12:03 PM   #5
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Originally posted by Gromnir:
How can we tell that each other exist? I can tell I exist because of those immortal words, "I think therefore I am" but this doesn't prove whether or not anyone else exists. For all I know you could all be figments of my imagination but I can't prove or disprove this so I need to believe, not know.

Any opinions?
No opinions here. I´m a figment of johnny´s imagination. So there! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 01-05-2003, 12:03 PM   #6
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If anothere entiety surprises you, you could not have thought them up, therefore, they exist, also.
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Old 01-05-2003, 12:41 PM   #7
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Old 01-05-2003, 01:08 PM   #8
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no
you dont exist
i dont exist
we are all holodeck illusions stuck in a little cube in captain picards ready room

could also go with the argument that we are all figments of the imagination of god (there was a philosopher in the past who argued this!) and u cant disprove it either.
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Old 01-05-2003, 01:14 PM   #9
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could also go with the argument that we are all figments of the imagination of god (there was a philosopher in the past who argued this!) and u cant disprove it either.
LOL, that was Berkeley. Samuel Johnson thought that he refuted Berekely when, after listening to him expound his philosophy, kicked a large stone.
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Old 01-05-2003, 01:18 PM   #10
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If anothere entiety surprises you, you could not have thought them up, therefore, they exist, also.
does this only apply to other entities because sometimes I surprise myself ¿!¡?
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