Just looking for other answers to this.

How do you know that you know anything? How do you know you can rely on your senses? (As in: I know the rock exists because I can see the rock. How do you know you can see it?)

If knowledge is reliant upon our senses and reasoning (which it is), and we can’t know for sure that our senses are reasoning are valid, then how can we know anything?

So is all knowledge based on faith?

If all knowledge is based on faith, then is science reliable?

If all knowledge is based on faith, then what about ACTUAL faith? Why is it so illogical?

Solipsism vs Nihilism

Solipsism claims that we know our own mind exists, where Nihilism claims we don’t know that anything exists.

Your thoughts?

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  • rufus
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    6 months ago

    It’s really simple. We’re past the fundational crisis in mathemematics.

    Same with the Scientific method

    You need to abide by the scientific method and form a hypothesis that is falsifiable. Your’s isn’t. So we can’t tell. But science delivers the goods. So unless you assume knowledge exists, you’re kind of in a useless theoretical argument, while I can form a model of the world and build smartphones and rockets with my approach. And have logic and mathematics and computers. So if your incentive is to get anywhere… Science it the way to go.

    And as far as I know there is no alternative to the scientific method that’s even close.