He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a hint of skepticism—say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.

Ashim Shanker

Tag: skepticism ontology solipsism past-and-future past-and-present time-slipping perception-and-reality approximate-truth

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