For my recent post ‘God will Never Die’ there has been a good response.
There have been a few relevant comments .
Some of them need an answer,
Instead of replying to the comments individually, as the subject is quite complex, I am posting.
Existence Definition.
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1. The fact or state of existing; being.
2. The fact or state of continued being; life: our brief existence on Earth.(free dictionary.com)
This is simple a definition as one can get.
However if one were to analyse the explanation provided , it becomes Complex.
‘Existing‘,’Being”
Normal understanding is that when I see some thing , it exists.
What does not appear to me does not.
One of the comment says this and this is the common view.
If we say things Exist only because they appear to me, then things we do not see DO NOT Exist.
I do not see my back directly.
I do not hear one speak in the next house.
I do not smell the sea, which is not in Bangalore.
I do not taste Honey.
I do not see my Brain or Mind.
Don’t they Exist?
They do.
And there are explanations and this is precisely the reason why there are many schools of Thoughts in Philosophy.
That they exist so long they appear to me, as has been commented upon this post ,is Realism.
But Things do Exist even when I do not see hear them.
We hear people informing us of things happening in USA or NASA Flights to Solar Systems.
So we do accept these as Existing.
So, if a Thing were to Exist as an Idea in some else’s Mind, it Exists.
This is called Idealism.
There are yet another group of people who say that the idea of what others inform me is because of my Idea of their Idea.
Therefore, things exist so long as they exist as an Idea in my Mind.
These people are called Solipsists and this system of thought is called Subjective idealism or Solipsism.
There is another practical point of view.
If it writes it is a Pen or Pencil as the case may be.
This explanation is called Pragmatism.
But in many a case what when we see an Illusion, we believe them to be true and react accordingly.
In some cases of mental disorders people do ear voices and visions.
Are they all true?
No.
Then what is Existence?
Existence is That which Is at all points of Time, without reference to anything else, People or circumstances.
‘Subject(Reality), is That which Exists by Itself ,independent of everything or anything else and , which does not need th conception of anything in order to be conceived”
This applies to Existence or Being,
Hinduism calls Reality by the attributes ‘Being, Consciousness and Bliss’
‘Sat, Chit, Anandam.
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