Can anyone give me a logical argument asserting that kumquats exist?

Question

Yeah, just need to know for sure that kumquats exists and how I can know that.

Answer 1

The existence or non-existence of kumquats is identical to the existence or non-existence of anything.

Let's begin with an assumption. Cogito ergo sum. I posit that I exist. I point to something else that I perceive to be separate from me. I touch it. I see it. I smell it. It is perceived by me to exist. Since it is differentiable from other objects, I can name it as a way of recognizing that difference. Somewhere along the line of naming differentiable objects, I choose to call one of them a kumquat.

So, independent of anyone else, I am convinced that kumquats exist because I have seen one and I have named it.

Now, how do I know that what I call a kumquat and what you call a kumquat are the same thing? I don't care. I know that kumquats exist because I exist and because I have a kumquat sitting in front of me that I can perceive and differentiate from other objects that are not kumquats.

Answer 2

Just go to the gorcery store.

Answer 3

Yea they really do exist