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How can we possibly know?
I am struggling mightily.
I think I may be an epistemic nihilist ... and all the Phil bros, philosophy devotees, and people who are interested in this subject just get frustrated with my endless questioning of their world views, which helps me figure mine out. (I think they think I'm ridiculing theirs.)
How can I know you or I exist? What are truth, consciousness, reality, awareness, intelligibility, etc? How can I trust what I (you) am experiencing to inform me of anything since everything is subjective? Is there even a "subject."
And on and on and on...
See? I'm struggling with all of this.
N.B. Also! I'm not depressed or non-social or not happy. (So sick of nihilists being framed as all that)
Thank you for any elucidation. Or commiseration.
u/Crb6020 — 11 days ago