Why I am a skeptic about the external world or Why i am not a skeptic about the external world.

Yet is it really the case that all these things are just mental products and , hence , there is no actual external world when all along we grow with life and acquire new experiences each day ? That is to say that our lives begin from being a fetus , to an infant , until we reach the point of adulthood . If indeed everything is just a product of our mental faculties , then it follows that from the time since we already have the minds to think and comprehend everything else must be already within our

minds . As we grow , it may only be the case that we begin to gradually realize all that the things contained in our minds , and that eventually there is no external world

But then again , it can hardly be the case that the mind contains within it all the things in the world , or all the ideas in the world , so that we begin to think or become skeptic that there is no external world . If the mind already contains all the ideas in the world , would it be of no use anymore to have experiences , and that we can only arrive some time in the future to realize what we know all along

Of course , experiences share a crucial part in the development of our understanding , our understanding of our selves and of the world notwithstanding . Without these experiences , one can hardly have a grasp of reality , like that of a child locked in a room since birth and deprived of the opportunity to interact with others unable to comprehend the things around him . We do not experience just through our own . That is , we experience what we experience through the external world , through the world outside of the mind for the mind is not an entity...