First one is supposed to be Descartes: "I think therefore I am." Also known in it's native tongue as "Cogito Ergo Sum."
Cartesian logic: Within your mind and my mind we have somehow got inside our minds the idea of God. How did he end up there? Because just how I can come up with mathematical deductions and logical explanations God came up inside my brain because he exists and put it inside my brain when I was a little child. Therefore God must exist. Now what if this idea in my head is not God but an Evil Deceiver who wants to trick me into trusting and believing him by telling me nothing but lies. The only thing that I know for sure is that I'm thinking that I'm being tricked by an Evil Deceiver who would not want me to think about being tricked in the first place. Therefore I know that through my process of thinking I know that I am not being tricked. If I am not being tricked then I know I exist because I am using my thinker.
- Descartes had to deal with the church man. Give him some slack.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_Ergo_Sum
Second one is supposed to be from the philosophical school of British empiricism and prompted by George Berkeley: In response to Locke, he put forth in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) a different, very extreme form of empiricism in which things only exist either as a result of their being perceived, or by virtue of the fact that they are an entity doing the perceiving. (For Berkeley, God fills in for humans by doing the perceiving whenever humans are not around to do it). In his text Alciphron, Berkeley maintained that any order humans may see in nature is the language or handwriting of God.[7] Berkeley's approach to empiricism would later come to be called subjective idealism.[8][9]
Method of Explanation: My gameboy is in another room that I can't see right now because I'm looking at the computer. In fact, the room that my gameboy is in right now is not in my vision at all. How do I know that the room and my gameboy really exist at all times? Maybe they just exist the moment they come into my line of sight. Maybe they exist in some extraterristial dimension that only comes into existence when I want it to. Will I ever know? No. I will never know because it is impossible for me to be omniscient like God and to see everything at the same time. In fact, there must be a God who does all the viewing at the same time and we simply are but a portion in this bigger picture being a part of a greater God. Simply put we partake in a bigger Geist that is synonymous with God. When the tree falls in the forest and no one sees it fall, God saw it fall and brought it to our consciousness when we took a stroll into the forest and saw it in the ground. We don't know if it fell or not. It could have started out that way for all we know. But God gave us the implicit knowledge to know these things.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_idealism
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatise_Co..._Knowledge
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Cartesian logic: Within your mind and my mind we have somehow got inside our minds the idea of God. How did he end up there? Because just how I can come up with mathematical deductions and logical explanations God came up inside my brain because he exists and put it inside my brain when I was a little child. Therefore God must exist. Now what if this idea in my head is not God but an Evil Deceiver who wants to trick me into trusting and believing him by telling me nothing but lies. The only thing that I know for sure is that I'm thinking that I'm being tricked by an Evil Deceiver who would not want me to think about being tricked in the first place. Therefore I know that through my process of thinking I know that I am not being tricked. If I am not being tricked then I know I exist because I am using my thinker.
- Descartes had to deal with the church man. Give him some slack.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_Ergo_Sum
Second one is supposed to be from the philosophical school of British empiricism and prompted by George Berkeley: In response to Locke, he put forth in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) a different, very extreme form of empiricism in which things only exist either as a result of their being perceived, or by virtue of the fact that they are an entity doing the perceiving. (For Berkeley, God fills in for humans by doing the perceiving whenever humans are not around to do it). In his text Alciphron, Berkeley maintained that any order humans may see in nature is the language or handwriting of God.[7] Berkeley's approach to empiricism would later come to be called subjective idealism.[8][9]
Method of Explanation: My gameboy is in another room that I can't see right now because I'm looking at the computer. In fact, the room that my gameboy is in right now is not in my vision at all. How do I know that the room and my gameboy really exist at all times? Maybe they just exist the moment they come into my line of sight. Maybe they exist in some extraterristial dimension that only comes into existence when I want it to. Will I ever know? No. I will never know because it is impossible for me to be omniscient like God and to see everything at the same time. In fact, there must be a God who does all the viewing at the same time and we simply are but a portion in this bigger picture being a part of a greater God. Simply put we partake in a bigger Geist that is synonymous with God. When the tree falls in the forest and no one sees it fall, God saw it fall and brought it to our consciousness when we took a stroll into the forest and saw it in the ground. We don't know if it fell or not. It could have started out that way for all we know. But God gave us the implicit knowledge to know these things.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_idealism
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatise_Co..._Knowledge
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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