The question then becomes, is there an objective world to experience? Do you agree that there is evidence that an objective world is there to experience? — anonymous66
Can someone prove that that prinicple is false?Fallibilism (from Medieval Latin: fallibilis, "liable to err") is the philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world.
Fallibilism (from Medieval Latin: fallibilis, "liable to err") is the philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world
There is no good reason to be unsure of whether this web page exists as one's eyes are interacting with it. — jkop
There's a difference between truth and the idea of truth, isn't there? You start off by speaking about what the idea of truth seems to be, yet your conclusion is regarding truth itself, and consists of conflating the two. The idea of truth vs. truth, and also seems to be vs. is. Your reasoning is invalid. — Sapientia
For the true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at what is reputable.
...Rhetoric is useful because things that are true and things that are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites, so that if the decisions of judges are not what they ought to be, the defeat must be due to the speakers themselves, and they must be blamed accordingly. — Aristotle's Rhetoric
Seeing light "as it really is" is to see light without an assumed intermediate representation. — jkop
You don't see light. You respond to an electrical signal transmitted from a receptor in your eye which obviously isn't light at all. I — Barry Etheridge
And just as I'm talking about this, I see ... — Barry Etheridge
Which part of receptor (eye) in combination with signal interpreter (in this case the cerebrum) did I fail to clarify? You would be just as blind if the connection of two perfectly functional eyes to the brain was severed as you would if somebody glued those eyes shut. — Barry Etheridge
Do you think that a robot, programmed with all kinds of image recognition algorithms, sees anything? — tom
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