2006-12-29 07:47:44 · 18 answers · asked by fiddich59 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No offense to your question itself, but
Is "knowing" more important than your "being" ?
Hope you don't waist your time and energy to know more,
enjoy your being while you can! Weather is so nice today, blue sky and the winter trees...
2006-12-29 08:12:37 · answer #1 · answered by The Catalyst 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't. This is the foundational problem of epistemology, the study of ways of knowing. Unfortunately, there is no way to prove you exist. Descartes thought he had it with 'Cogito, ergo, sum', meaning, "I think, therefore, I am." However, three hundred years later, Jean-Paul Sartres realized that this didn't address the brain in a jar scenario, and that it was not quite the tautology it appeared.
You cannot prove your observations. You must accept them as true. They are axiomic. Therefore, you cannot prove your existence, you must accept it axiomically.
2006-12-29 15:54:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Maybe you don't exist.
2006-12-29 15:50:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you didn't .That would mean that your body is not on earth.
If no1 noticed u.Just don't feel bad.And i know how you
feel.No1 in my class don't notice me.It's like you and me are invisible.I just don't know why.That's the way life is.OK.
2006-12-29 15:55:53 · answer #4 · answered by Najia A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some Frenchman, I think it was Descartes, said: "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am"). It seems he wondered the same thing as you, and that was his conclusion. I couldn't do better.
2006-12-29 15:51:31 · answer #5 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you are looking for is " I think, therefore I am ". What you get however is, " I have my suspicions, therefore I might be ".
Hope that helps you to find the truth.
2006-12-29 15:53:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
jump from the top of the building , if you are dead after it , it means you were existing .. otherwise you weren't.
2006-12-29 15:54:48 · answer #7 · answered by itsmylife 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't - take my word for it.
You are just a creation of my ample imagination. Now go away.
2006-12-29 16:04:16 · answer #8 · answered by Bad M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pinch yourself....does it hurt? You exist
2006-12-29 15:52:51 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cognito ergo sum
i think therefore i am
Descartes
2006-12-29 15:50:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋