Existence?

Question

Hello, my name is Prof. C Lawrence Hansson, I am a prominent Australian Philosopher whose research centers on Philosophy of the mind. I am currently a Professor of Philosophy and lecture Philosophical Science at one of Queenslands most prestigious Universities. Today I am conducting a survey on " Existence " to see how much the community understands and grasps philosophy. I would like to hear from anyone, regardless of age, gender or

profession. How do we know the existence of a Physical object, when no body is peciving it?

Answer 1

The Aboriginal people existed long before their lands were discovered. Native American culture existed many moons before those lands were found.

Answer 2

we don't. we just have to assume that because we have been told it's there, it is. if we didn't assume that, our entire world would fall apart because there would be no ground for it to stand upon. it's like trying to write a novel; if you assume letters exist, you could end with anything from a horribly written chunk of garbage to an amazing novel comparable to Oliver Twist. if you deny the existence of letters, whether you are right or wrong, no book will ever get written.

Answer 3

What a line of bull.

Every professor has his own website, like this one for Prof. C Lawrence Hanson. http://www.neurosci.ucsd.edu/oldweb/hans... Where's yours? What is your curriculum vitea?

No one who is real refuses to say where he teaches, nor uses such jargon as "one of Queenslands most prestigious Universities" without identifying it.

By the way, which physical object? Even the astro physicists who cannot "perceive" a distant planet by direct means, have mathematical calculations they use to "perceive" the planet.

But there are other things too. Like oxygen. That is detected differently than a heavy metal in the human body would be detected.

You're a fake.

Answer 4

Every question like this I always answer with the same answer:

If it did not exist before it was perceived how was it able to be perceived in the first place?  Therefore, it must have existed before it was known otherwise it wouldn't have been unknown before it was known.

Thus we can know the existence of a physical object when no body is perceiving it by the realization that there have already been objects that existed before we perceived it.

Answer 5

Previous expirences combined with a little faith (not religious-just the best discriptive word I can think of).  Black holes-no one can see-but the theory seems sound and makes sense, then I think it is reasonable to believe they exist.  But I believe because of human nature, we want to see it, touch it and smell it to believe it physically exists.  Beyond that it is just a theory isn't it?

Answer 6

The existence of the universe is not dependent upon human observation.

If we blink, the stars do not go out.

We know how they work.