Once again, you write very lucidly. People make fake copies of these arguments that are clearly not the original because they don't make any kind of sense, and their points don't stand examination, but yours is the real one and theirs is the counterfeit, because your argument makes the most sense ;)
I am averse to the idea that there is no reality, but I find the approach to it that makes best sense to me is not a direct reply to this, but to solipsism. So for a moment I, supposedly a created idea, will address you as a solipsist who entertains herself with the idea that all reality proceeds from her mind.
Since I am not real, these arguments are of course only ones that you have had yourself, and prefer to play with, but in that case to confirm yourself in your view of solipsism, you must reply to these issues that you raise with yourself through the imaginary creature, me.
If you have always existed, why can't you remember back beyond what has become known as your 'birth' ?
If you were born, what part of you that you are not aware of led to your being born?
If you are not aware of the part of you that led to your being born, how can you say with certainty that it is a part of you?
If there is something that you cannot prove to yourself is a part of you, then as a solipsist you must suppose that it is not real, but just your imagination.
If you were created by your own imagination, then how did it exist in the absence of your bodily organs, which it created?
If your imagination created your bodily organs, then it also created all the things that you imagine that you perceive through them, so your imagination must also have created itself, then created the appearance of organs through which to experience what it imagined. But if it can, alone, experience what your organs see and feel and hear - why did it bother to make organs that you do not require?
Well leaving aside the idea of you as solipsist for a moment, I submit that the argument for solipsism actually is penetrable; one can raise perfectly sound reasons that prove that solipsism is absurd.
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I am averse to the idea that there is no reality, but I find the approach to it that makes best sense to me is not a direct reply to this, but to solipsism. So for a moment I, supposedly a created idea, will address you as a solipsist who entertains herself with the idea that all reality proceeds from her mind.
Since I am not real, these arguments are of course only ones that you have had yourself, and prefer to play with, but in that case to confirm yourself in your view of solipsism, you must reply to these issues that you raise with yourself through the imaginary creature, me.
If you have always existed, why can't you remember back beyond what has become known as your 'birth' ?
If you were born, what part of you that you are not aware of led to your being born?
If you are not aware of the part of you that led to your being born, how can you say with certainty that it is a part of you?
If there is something that you cannot prove to yourself is a part of you, then as a solipsist you must suppose that it is not real, but just your imagination.
If you were created by your own imagination, then how did it exist in the absence of your bodily organs, which it created?
If your imagination created your bodily organs, then it also created all the things that you imagine that you perceive through them, so your imagination must also have created itself, then created the appearance of organs through which to experience what it imagined. But if it can, alone, experience what your organs see and feel and hear - why did it bother to make organs that you do not require?
Well leaving aside the idea of you as solipsist for a moment, I submit that the argument for solipsism actually is penetrable; one can raise perfectly sound reasons that prove that solipsism is absurd.