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[arethinn]

does someone want to come over and snuggle me?

(this is essentially rhetorical - much more a statement of feeling than an actual request. in fact i would feel very creeped-out if any of you said yes, with precious few exceptions.)

Comments

[ungarsfragile.livejournal.com]

My favourite implicit empiricist, Berkeley, would agree; excepting that as `esse est percepti`, the act of observing would require your existence.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

But does it require my prior existence? That is, does the fact that I am observable mean that I must have already existed to be able to be observed, and that things cannot be "bootstrapped" into existing?