"If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to observe it, did it really happen?" This is the age-old question posed by the arm-chair philosopher, a sort of brain-tease "prove-it-to-me" question which can be difficult to resolve using formal logic and reasoning (especially for the average untrained or amateur philosopher), but which finds a rather simple resolution in common-sense experiences. That resolution is the insistence that solipsism is false, that there is a world outside of my own immediate senses and perceptions; and that this solipsism is equally false even if extended to cover the whole of the human race, or any other finite observers for that matter.
Read the rest at the Nicene Guys site.
No comments:
Post a Comment