can you prove you exist?
2006-10-17 11:56:35 · 10 answers · asked by connie 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I can prove science exists...... I know I exist, YOU on the other hand may be a figment of my imagination.
2006-10-17 12:39:41 · answer #1 · answered by southwind 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, science cannot prove that we exist. Philosophy can. Let me build just a very little bit upon what my colleagues have already stated.
Just because science cannot prove something, does not mean something cannot be proven. Science cannot prove that George Washington was the first President of the United States. But that's okay, we have other tools for demonstrating that fact.
And in philosophy, some facts are taken to be "properly basic", that is, they don't require proof because they are self evidently true. The fact that I exist is, to me, properly basic. Another properly basic belief, for example, would be that "the whole is greater than a part thereof." It simply is true and requires no evidence or argument.
So, while you cannot do an experiment to prove that you exist, you can still rest asured that you do, indeed, exist. Consider Descartes's famous dictum: Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am).
2006-10-17 20:55:31 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob1207 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea of exsistance is to complicated an issue. It is just a concept of philosphy. I would say the meaning of our exsistance is a more interesting question as well as just as complex. Sure the "think therefore I am" is a good way to consider your issue it really does not answer the question. One question science has tried to answer is how we came to be. Science can go back all the way to the creation of our universe and then hits a large road block.
2006-10-18 14:27:38 · answer #3 · answered by Bill G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea of science was formed by us to accomadate for, and prove our believes. So even if science can prove we exist, it doenst mean that it is true!
2006-10-17 20:43:25 · answer #4 · answered by Adam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of science isn't to prove anything.
2006-10-17 19:12:13 · answer #5 · answered by alex m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science has proven that most of you doesn't exist.
2006-10-17 20:24:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some things in life are self evident. This is one of them.
2006-10-17 19:04:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is the realm of philosophy or theology.
2006-10-17 20:00:04 · answer #8 · answered by rockEsquirrel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
science and theory, evolution says we evolved from apes and chimpanzes, I don't know, people have different theories aka jesus or ape? lol no one knows for sure
2006-10-17 19:27:57 · answer #9 · answered by Dena T 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no science does not, nor can it.
2006-10-17 19:09:12 · answer #10 · answered by childhoodtrauma 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋