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WCDT: 2796-2800 (22-26 September 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ankhtahr:
Hehe:
Now I feel in the mood for some Philosophy. I still want to read some of Bertrand Russel's works. He's one of the people I'd consider my idol.
KOK:
--- Quote from: Piet Hein ---We need to find a modus bibendi
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hedgie:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 22 Sep 2014, 21:42 ---I actually like that idea of Descartes. You can doubt anything. But by doubting anything you already prove that you exist.
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There have been several critiques of that. Spinoza and Berkeley (and others dealing with metaphysics) have also attempted to deal with the same issue. Of course then you get into the matter of what "really" exists. Like if you, and in fact this whole universe are figments of my imagination, one could easily say that you *don't* exist, since independent of me, then you're not actually "real". And then we get into arguing over whether Descartes had any sort of independent existence even if he *was* a figment. Given the content of the rest of the Meditations, I think it's fair to say that he did argue just that, that he existed as an independent physical, entity.
Nyithra:
Now I wanna write a story where people can only exist if they've been drinking. Or perhaps drinking sends people to an alternate universe, I dunno.
FunkyTuba:
At what point do entities start vanishing in puffs of logic?
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