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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
Not sure I get that, how does the answer "What chair?" prove the chair doesn't exist?
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He is speaking about his personal reality. If you do not realize something exists than to you it doesn't exist.
For example, yesterday while under my 29 Ford I found a stainless steel bolt laying on the floor of my garage. I have never seen that bolt laying there before nor do I have an recollection of using that bolt in the past.
Therefore until that moment when I found that bolt it did not exist to me because I had no knowledge of its existence.
So by saying "What Chair?" he acknowledges that he does not know which chair the professor is talking about so the chair does not exist in his reality. Hope that helps.