This thread "ONLY" for "education". (OK entertainment)

[Sourdough]

In as few words as possible, "HOW DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING EXISTS"....???

Example: You look out over a large valley and your eye notices something in that valley. Question: How do you know that "something" exists...??

Don't get your panties in a bunch, this is for education, entertainment, enlightenment.

Reduced to the maximum: "How do you know a thing exists"..??

Please note: everyone gets a huge trophy for participating. We do this to dumb'down humanity.

 

[zoomzoom]

As the saying goes, "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see".

 

[elkhound]

Example: You look out over a large valley and your eye notices something in that valley. Question: How do you know that "something" exists...??

touch,feel,taste and more....religious stuff...by faith.

i seen a buck in valley so i beat feet way out in front of him cause i knew from experience where most likely he would cross at. i set up and POW...big buck down....i gutted and cleaned him and packed him out....the weight was very real on my back along with blood on my hands,knife etc. it got wrapped and put in freezer and some in canning jars....every time i opened a jar or pack it fed me and kept me alive so it did exist....inside my gut it got digested down and expelled from my person and then broke down even farther with time and now you could say that buck doesnt exist in any form now....EXCEPT as a great memory in my brain till i am no more !!!

 

[Canon29]

You dont.


this was kant's basic contention and led to the establishment of his moral metaphysics.

To expand upon thst a little you perceive things through your senses and thus gain confidence that things are real based on how compelling/consistent the evidence is that something is real. Mind you the word confidence is from the Latin "con" and "fide" which translates literally to "with faith."

Meaning you only really have faith that something is real. The importance of faith as a construct both logically and spiritually is of supreme importance.

You technically cannot prove you're not a brain in a jar somewhere having your neurons stimulated by an external source. You have faith that your not based on a wealth of experiences, but if you're truly honest- you don't know anything for certain.

 

[Patchouli]

I know some things for certain but I’m not going to the coliseum today to discuss it with the philosophers. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[UrbanHunter]

When it Bites me in the aaa

 

[Amish Heart]

I asked my husband and he said, "When it hurts, then you know it's real"

 

[Sourdough]

This is actually very simple. Shockingly simple. But it is important to keep the answer in one's awareness. Try this, if you see something, how do you identify that you see it. Forget the earlier large valley example.

 

[elkhound]

I know some things for certain but I’m not going to the coliseum today to discuss it with the philosophers. Maybe tomorrow.

always stay clear of the coliseum......theres lions there.

 

[Patchouli]

always stay clear of the coliseum......theres lions there.

sorry, the lyceum, gymnasium, or agora

 

[Pearl]

This is actually very simple. Shockingly simple. But it is important to keep the answer in one's awareness. Try this, if you see something, how do you identify that you see it. Forget the earlier large valley example.

Memory, you have seen it before!!

 

[Hardcalibres]

Old African saying:

The more I see, the more I know.......

The more I know, the better I see.

 

[UserNameTaken]

What is existence? Does any of this exist? Or are we just a computer simulation on some being's school tablet? Remember the Star Trek episode where Piccard was stuck and lived his life on a dying planet that was part of a space probe? What if we are just episode two?

 

[Amish Heart]

Ha. Maybe we are.

 

[Canon29]

I hope this thread doesn't fade away without @Sourdough giving us the simple answer he alluded to in #8. I'd like to see more discussion of this question which is in my opinion of extreme foundational importance.