Plagurism

I did not write this. i am not claiming i wrote this. i do not know who wrote this? i do know, the author was not me:

TEACHER: To be is to be percieved. There is no matter, there are only minds and the ideas in those minds.

STUDENT: Of course there are material objects. What about this great vintage top I'm wearing? I can feel it and see it . . .

TEACHER: All you know of that fabulous top are your perceptions of it. Your perceptions aren't material objects, they're ideas--you could never know them if they were anything else.

STUDENT: Perceptions aren't physical objects, but that doesn't stop them from having systematic connections to material objects, nor does it prove that those objects don't exist. How can you explain the intersubjective consistency of perceptions? An independent real world is the most economic and intuitively attractive model to explain what we do know. Where do you think minds inhere, if not in human beings, which are physical objects?

TEACHER: Everything we know is in our minds. You can provide no proof that there are material objects, because that proof would be in your mind and would be made up of ideas. You cannot use ideas to reason to things that are not ideas.

"And a Good Day to you, Sir!" - Walter Sobchak

original date: Friday, June 23, 2006