King@blackneon.net to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agoWhy do you personally believe in your religion?message-squaremessage-square127linkfedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down10
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareWhy do you personally believe in your religion?King@blackneon.net to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agomessage-square127linkfedilink
minus-squareAllero@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoIt doesn’t take philosophical weeds to consider the possibility of Sun being just a lamp in the sky, or people around you not being real
minus-squareXaphanos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoThe sun can be a large lamp. That’s still real.
minus-squareAllero@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 days agoIs it the Sun as we know it, though? And how can we be sure the lamp is actually there, and not simulation/imagination/trick of our eyes or brain?
minus-squareXaphanos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoBack to Solipsism. Anything can be argued in the ways you mention, eliminating all possible knowledge of both self and reality. A non productive dead end of philosophy.
It doesn’t take philosophical weeds to consider the possibility of Sun being just a lamp in the sky, or people around you not being real
The sun can be a large lamp. That’s still real.
Is it the Sun as we know it, though? And how can we be sure the lamp is actually there, and not simulation/imagination/trick of our eyes or brain?
Back to Solipsism. Anything can be argued in the ways you mention, eliminating all possible knowledge of both self and reality. A non productive dead end of philosophy.