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Comment author: shougahai 15 June 2015 09:00:27AM 0 points [-]

While there are certain brute facts of existence, many important questions can't be answered by an examination of external reality (sense data?) - or at all, really. You get to choose your position on these issues in terms of what appeals to you.

For example, the existence of other minds: the reason to believe in the existence of other minds is that life is more enjoyable if other people are real. Is that a problem?