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Is there anything that the mind conceives of that can be regarded as really existing, with respect to the mind?

PhilX

Things in reality were built through the mind.

No.theres nothing that exist of its self without consciouness.

Philosophy Explorer wrote:Is there anything that the mind conceives of that can be regarded as really existing, with respect to the mind?

PhilX

Yes, and is usually goes under the name of scientific realism.

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_realism

Philosophy Explorer wrote:Is there anything that the mind conceives of that can be regarded as really existing, with respect to the mind? PhilX

Being which is completely bereft of or not represented by what are deemed "mental characteristics" (phenomenal presences and intelligibility of them via memory, concepts, description, etc) would not even be an exhibition of nothingness. But this does not exclude such an insentient existence from having causal powers; IOW, being the provenance of the perceptual affairs that are cognitively apprehended by putative "minds".