FLUFFYGERM posted...you misunderstood. you cannot prove to yourself that you are not a brain in a jar. you have no way of "knowing" that we exist and that we aren't just figments of your imagination like in the matrix. that is the crux of the position.
and regardless of what nonsense other philosophers said to be edgy or to try to get some fame, Descartes' I think Therefore I Am is bulletproof. sorry not sorry.
But if you're real because your thoughts are real, then other things you think must also be, by that same token. This is why the "I think, therefore I am" thing is nonsense. In summary,
Dragonblade01 posted...The question of hard solipsism is possibly the most empty question in all of philosophy.
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