How do I know anything? Can anything be known?
I take it as a given that I exist. That is my starting point. The world exists in relation to my own existence. That is the world is what I see and percieve it as. It follows then, that without sensory information there is no world. Having defined my existence and its relation to the existence of the world - without me there is no world, I proceed to question the existence of God. Since my primary assertion is of my own existence, nothing exists before me and nothing exists after me. And god if he does exists, then exists outside my own existence since he is supposed to be always there.
If, on the other hand, we question our very existence, and proceed to say that questions need not make sense or have answers, we are basically saying that nothing can be said with any certainty and this does not lead to a better understanding of anything. Basically it is not saying that nothing matters (meaning is what we ascribe, so things need not matter), which is an acceptable position to take, but that nothing exists.
What is the proof that I am not living in the Matrix?
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