Do I exist or Not?

Question

Tommorrow I am debating my friend on the toping If i exist or not. I am saying that i exist and am real and my friend is saying that i do not exist and am not real. I need some points and pointers to help. Any ideas or suggestions?

Any Contribution will be helpful.
Thankyou.

Answer 1

That is impossible to prove. You will lose.

Answer 2

The best chance you have to win an argument is to know your enemies position better than he does. Be able to argue his point better than he can. That being said; His ability to argue that you don't exist would suggest that he DOES exist. All things being equal, by default, you exist because you are there to argue the point.

What is the criteria of existence? What are the rules? What has to occur in order for one to exist?
Better yet, what has to occur for an individual not to exist? Do you meet this criteria?

Try arguing from the molecular perspective, Or maybe the spiritual perspective. Try to figure out his angle and go from there.

Answer 3

Your friend has already won.

Descarte famously said, "I think, therefore, I am." There are two problems with this. First, it is only self-proof. You cannot prove to another that you think, therefore, your cognition implies nothing of your existence to someone else. Second, Jean-Paul Sartre studied the Cogito (as Decartes' argument is known) and found critical flaws which I've never been able to adequately explain (so go read Jean-Paul Sartre on the topic).

The problem of epistemology can be summed up in Godel's Incompleteness Theorum -- no consistent system of logic can be self-proving, and no self-proving system of logic can be consistent. As such, there must always, ALWAYS , be unprovable axioms.

Existence of self is one of these unprovable axioms.

Answer 4

Take a mirror with you and ask your friend who they see in the mirror, when you look into it!
To have actual being; be real.
To have life; live: one of the worst actors that ever existed.
To live at a minimal level; subsist: barely enough income on which to exist.
To continue to be; persist: old customs that still exist in rural areas.
To be present under certain circumstances or in a specified place; occur:

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Answer 5

Tell your friend that if he doesn't believe you exist, you could not kill him. Then pull out a knife and ask if he still doesn't believe. Not particularly constructive, as you may lose a friend, but, hey, you want to win the debate, right?

P.S. Please don't kill you friend :)

Answer 6

Take your friend's arm and pinch it as hard as you can.
If he still thinks you aren't real, he needs serious psychiatric help.

Answer 7

If your not joking a would say you- because you are typing right now.

If your friend is an asshole tell him to get a life, turn around and never look back;)

Answer 8

We all exist in our own minds

Answer 9

if you dont exist why is your friend even having the debate, and who is he or she talking to?

Answer 10

You don't exist. You are merely a figment of your imagination.

Answer 11

We all exist. God created us. We will always exist even if our bodies aren't alive. We still have a sole!