My thoughts on the bullshit philosophy “I could be imaging all this, so nothing is really proven to exist”
What is existence? Simply put it is a state of being versus not being. If you are reading this then you exist and what you are reading exists, what you are reading it on is exists on and on etcetera. In regards to this, I will discuses the argument “I could be imaging all this, so nothing is really proven to exist”, I will not argue about whether things perceived are material or immaterial. Whether what we perceive as material is so or not is nothing more than philosophical in the first place, it's not worth arguing given the fact that we operate in the world under the given assumption that generally things are, as we perceive and we act accordingly. However, I will address a belief I’ve heard stated within this argument, which is; “the imagined is immaterial, there by excluding it as existing”. if you believe that statement could have merit your are mistaken, what ever you may imagine is by doing so brought into existence because at the very least, YOU can interact with it and since you can not interact with that which does not exist it must exist. “I think there for I am” confirms that you exist, therefore anything you imagine exists regardless as to whether it is immaterial or actual or whether you manifest it physically such and a writer or artist does or tell it to other verbally (transferring immaterial from you to immaterial within the listener) or if you just keep it to yourself . The words you read here are technically just as immaterial as your thoughts, as the internet is “virtual”, the only difference being that the internet is accessible to an unlimited number of people, where as your thoughts are only accessible to you unless in some way you take action to pass them on to others. All the preceding leads me to be confident in saying; the statement that something being immaterial means it does not exist falls flat. The only angle left for the argument would be semantics and that is overtly desperate and pointless. Being that I want to keep this short, that covers the core of how I see the statement/argument (or others like it) “I could be imaging all this, so nothing is really proven to exist”, it is just bullshit in a seemingly clever package, but bullshit nonetheless.
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