Who then can prove to me that the moon exists?

Question

remember YOU have to have to the proof. And if you say that you can see it, then this question went way over your head.

so then whatever you can see makes it real. Enter Mr. Blaine. HAH!

Chuckie411 wins!

mbgrafix gets it as well, props.

Answer 1

The simple answer is because somebody told me.
All "proof" is relative and ultimately based upon the foundation of trust.
Everything I know and believe is based on two things... what I detect with my five senses and what people tell me about them. Therefore, truth and facts are related, but separate. Having the "facts" does not necessarily lead to the "truth". It is a "fact" that I cannot see radio waves, however this does not prove that they do not exist. Ultimately, I believe they exist for two reasons... I have listened to the radio and I have been told that invisble waves are the cause. This of course brings us back to the issue of trust. One must trust that the information given to them by their senses and by others is accurate. Therefore in my opinion it is not really possible to prove that the moon exists, one must believe it.

Answer 2

You could ask the same question about the Earth or the Sun. There are humans alive who have walked on the moon, we have samples of moon dust. We can shine a laser beam onto the moon and see the beam bounce off the surface. We can even measure the time it takes light to bounce off the moon. We can measure the gravitational effects of the moon on the Earth.

All of this stuff can be demonstrated to you in a good science class. It all depends what proof would be good enough for you.

Why don't you prove to me that you exist and are not just a figment of my imagination?

Answer 3

I strongly believe in using powers of observation for proof. Sight is an important power of observation. If you are suggesting that seeing is NOT believing, then there was no proof that the moon existed until Neil Armstrong actually touched the moon. However, if the five senses do not count, then actually touching the moon is not proof either.

By your criteria, I do not believe that anyone can prove the moon exists.

Answer 4

Just about anyone can show you the moon.

Your "this question went way over your head" comment doesn't save you. Your understanding of the nature of evidence and the relations between evidence and belief would have to be quite feeble if you couldn't accept our ability to see the moon as evidence for the existence of the moon.

Answer 5

If you wont' accept visual confirmation taken from well over billions of people with samples form moon landings, photographic evidence and the tides themselves as proof, then you are incapable of being rational.

Philosophical questions that have no answer are meant to exercise the mind. This one is meant to ridicule.

Answer 6

I have proof!

Bends over, *moon*

If you are speaking of the celestial body... what other proof than looking at it with the naked eye or through a telescope can you be searching for... indeed over my juvenile head, but I will add this to my watch list to see the answer.

Answer 7

no you can say you see it ..the question isnt as over ones head as you think because it is easy to prove by seeing....now religion is harder because one can only go by faith in a Living God...not that is more along the lines of proving something hard to prove without one having faith...but your question is very simple and has proof every night when the sun goes down......

Answer 8

To prove anything exists is not that hard. In order for something to exist we must know it...how do we know the moon exists? We talk about it. Something must exist if we can talk about it, think about it, question it.

Answer 9

If you think "you can see it" does not satisfy the question, you need to shove a book on ontology and epistemology up where neither the sun nor moon shines.

Answer 10

people have seen and visited the moon and brought back rocks and materials back from it. But I need proof your brain exsits no ones ever seen it and it proboly is a rock