Questions tagged [existence]
Ontological and metaphysical questions about the study of existence, being and the structure of reality.
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What is the difference between existing in the mind and non-physical existence?
How could one detect the subtle difference, if any, between imagining a being and using the imagination to interact with a non-physical being?
To provide some context for this question, I will give a ...
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Is it possible to determine an object's nonexistence? [closed]
The fish bowl argument is the observation that things are the way they are not due to some improbable (or otherwise) happenstance but rather because we are completely unfamiliar with the alternative. ...
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Could 'cogito ergo sum' possibly be false?
I've heard it postulated by some people that "we can't truly know anything". While that does seem to apply to the vast majority of things, I can't see how 'cogito ergo sum' can possibly be false.
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