I do not exist - Page 2

**Phil E** · 01-12-2010, 05:59 PM

	Originally Posted by Priori To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I guess my point would be, why do you say this and use a Wittgenstein quote to say the opposite?

Actually, the Wittgenstein quote supports my post. The reason there would be no practical difference is because labeling reality as an illusion would be to merely relabel the exact evidence that we have to work with. It would be to change the word and not the definition, thus destroying any meaning the word "illusion" would've had and making it superfluous given that we already have a word to describe that set of evidence.

**Priori** · 01-12-2010, 06:36 PM

Well for better or worse, you have indeed destroyed the word
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**Phil E** · 01-12-2010, 07:23 PM

	Originally Posted by Priori To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Well for better or worse, you have indeed destroyed the word To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Let me clarify, I'm not saying that "illusion" and "reality" are the same. I'm saying that to call "reality" "illusion" would be a mistake because the definitions in that particular case would be the same. And to do so would be to destroy the definition of illusion. Thus there would be no practical difference if we accept the claim that crow suggested.

**elprimodelyeti** · 02-21-2010, 04:09 PM

You're right, you don't exist, you're just an invention of mine in my inner world. Nobody exists but me.

**crow** · 02-21-2010, 04:27 PM

None of this matters at all.
We are, until we are not.
There is only a God - for you - if you decide there is.
The idea is just to be.

Incredibly, for many, this is not enough
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02-21-2010, 04:09 PM	#29
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02-21-2010, 04:27 PM	#30
crow Member [05%] MBTI: INxJ Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 223	None of this matters at all. We are, until we are not. There is only a God - for you - if you decide there is. The idea is just to be. Incredibly, for many, this is not enough To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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