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• exocrinous@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it’s unknowable, then statements about whether it secretly exists are pointless. It might as well not.

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  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s unknowable, but I think it’s rational to conclude that there is something. We can’t directly experience it, but we can experience something which means there’s something out there.

    I don’t buy the “we live in the matrix” or “deceitful god” arguments.

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    • exocrinous@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, so your argument is there cannot be an effect without a cause. We have perceptions, so they must have causes, and you believe those causes must be a real world.

      However, this is a bit of a strange thing to think. Because if there exists a world, then there exists a big bang, and we are right back at the problem of effects without causes. The argument against effects without causes does not favour realism any more than soulism.

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      • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I agree with the first paragraph, but not the second. Why should there be a big bang? That’s based on the assumption that you can trust your perceptions, which I’m essentially rejecting.

        In other words, is there something giving me perceptions? I think so. Why is it there? Who knows. Why is there anything? Same answer.

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