Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Antisolipsism

I never heard anyone defend this view: "Billions of people exist but I don't."

8 comments:

Atno said...

And what could this show us? Perhaps it is a testament to the sharp differences between clear, direct insight of the first person experience and the (potentially) doubtful nature of third person reality. If Descartes was wrong, we would at least expect to find some antisolipsists. But we only ever find the occasional solipsists in history, not antisolipsists...

SMatthewStolte said...

When it seems like you don’t exist even though everyone else does, it’s hard to write that article.

Walter Van den Acker said...

I was going to write a very long and excellent reply to this post, but then I realised I am actually the only existing being, so nobody is going to read it anyway.

Philip Rand said...

It is because the advocates of such a view are too silent to be real to you Pruss...

Alexander R Pruss said...

It's hard to be very motivated to defend a view which has the property that if you defend it successfully, it's wrong.

Philip Rand said...

Interesting... so what you are saying is...

A philosophical argument, having no empirical foundations, never teaches anyone anything they didn't know already.

And yet, you defend the so-called teaching of Philosophy... interesting...

Philip Rand said...

That is why you defend transubstantiation, teach transubstantiation, and know transubstantiation is true.

As a Roman Catholic the transubstantiation argument, having no empirical foundations, never teaches a Roman Catholic anything he didn't know already.

Arath55 said...

Dr. Pruss, what do you think that nothing exists, our senses can correlate to reality but that entails the pressuposition of reality, it could still be an illusion, u should prove that our senses can interact with our essence as if this illusion truly affects our essence, yet this can be denied since our senses can also be illusions that dont actually afect our soul, solipsism as an afirmative thesis that cannot defend itself but its not debunkable