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Objectivity in Music
Gryff:
Well, I exist. I don't know about the rest of you though. *shifty eyes*
That you exist in your own thoughts should be enough to prove some kind of existence to yourself. How do you explain that nothing exists?
sp2:
--- Quote from: mechorg ---Well, since Descartes' only deciding factor on the debate whether he existed or not was the fact there is a kind God that wouldn't let that happen and I am an athiest...
I believe none of you or I, myself exist. It makes life much more fun that way.
--- End quote ---
No. The fact that thoughts necessarily require a thinker is assumed to be self-evident in western thought (eastern thought differs, but that is neither here nor there. Nietzsche has some choice words for Buddhism). Descartes relied on the existence of an omni^3 god to prove that the rest of the universe is indeed in existence, because a truly omni^3 god could not act as a deceptive cartesian demon for various arbitrary moral reasons.
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