Message from @Existence is identity

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2019-02-13 02:10:48 UTC  

Yes

2019-02-13 02:11:01 UTC  

Through your senses

2019-02-13 02:11:52 UTC  

So how do you know the sun exists?

2019-02-13 02:12:04 UTC  

Because I perceive it

2019-02-13 02:12:16 UTC  

Do you know it exists outside of your mind?

2019-02-13 02:12:40 UTC  

Yes, if I have knowledge of it before its out of my focus

2019-02-13 02:13:30 UTC  

You cant know of something you dont perceive or hear/read about

2019-02-13 02:13:43 UTC  

So would you consider the sun in the matrix as existing outside of your mind?

2019-02-13 02:13:52 UTC  

Which still has to be perceived

2019-02-13 02:14:06 UTC  

I dont remember the Matrix

2019-02-13 02:14:19 UTC  

I watched it a long time ago

2019-02-13 02:14:37 UTC  

For a dude who lives in a computer program.

2019-02-13 02:15:01 UTC  

We dont live in a computer program

2019-02-13 02:15:15 UTC  

How do you know that?

2019-02-13 02:15:36 UTC  

“Maybe you’re wrong” is an accusation that must be supported by specific evidence. It cannot be uttered without context, grounds, or basis, i.e., arbitrarily.

2019-02-13 02:15:54 UTC  

Onus of proof is on you.

2019-02-13 02:15:54 UTC  

We have no evidence of it

2019-02-13 02:16:15 UTC  

I cant be asked to prove a negative

2019-02-13 02:16:15 UTC  

Empericism is commie propaganda, bruh.

2019-02-13 02:17:11 UTC  

It is possible, the skeptic argument declares, for man to be in error; therefore, it is possible that every individual is in error on every question. This argument is a non sequitur; it is an equivocation on the term “possible.”

2019-02-13 02:17:32 UTC  

>Because we arent omniscient we cant know anything

2019-02-13 02:17:51 UTC  

There would be no way to know either way.

2019-02-13 02:18:08 UTC  

I don't think there would be any significant difference anyway.

2019-02-13 02:19:14 UTC  

You are making the positive claim that existence exists outside of our mind. The onus of proof is on you.

2019-02-13 02:19:31 UTC  

Because existence has to be focused on

2019-02-13 02:20:23 UTC  

Awareness is not a passive but active state, when you close your eyes does everything vanish metaphysically

2019-02-13 02:21:08 UTC  

Knowledge is what makes possible the discovery of fallibility.

2019-02-13 02:24:13 UTC  

Would something you perceive in a dream exist as much as something you perceive while awake?

2019-02-13 02:24:33 UTC  

No, because it does not consist with reality

2019-02-13 02:24:49 UTC  

How do you know you are awake?

2019-02-13 02:25:56 UTC  

Through introspection and checking the facts of reality

2019-02-13 02:26:58 UTC  

Would you be able to know when you are dreaming?

2019-02-13 02:27:04 UTC  

Non contradictory identification

2019-02-13 02:27:19 UTC  

I dont dream much if I do I dont remember it

2019-02-13 02:28:08 UTC  

Some acid wouldn't be a bad idea for you.

2019-02-13 02:28:25 UTC  

Open the doors of perception, bruh.

2019-02-13 02:29:18 UTC  

There's a difference between someone on drugs and someone off drugs

2019-02-13 02:30:17 UTC  

Life is a trip, bruh. Don't forget to bring a towel.

2019-02-13 02:37:38 UTC  

@halfthink You should pick up Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology if you have already read the novels

2019-02-13 02:38:32 UTC  

I haven't read the novels, only a bunch of excerpts from her philosophical writting.

2019-02-13 02:38:55 UTC  

Atlas is great