medium sized material things, therefore, they exist."
This is another way of saying, "if you grant that I have knowledge of the existence of at least one object external to me, then that means an external world exists. I know my hand exists. Ergo..."
Wittgenstein's contemplations on this in On Certainty are much more interesting that the actual begging-the-question nonargument.
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> That's not the argument. The Refutation of Idealism
> is
> based on the not-insane idea, in fact the idea that
> I
> think is true, that we have direct perceptions of
> medium sized material things, therefore, they exist.
>
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