Yes, we can be mistaken about our experiences. Isn't this fact the basis of philosophy? — TheMadFool
What about cases in which people don't realize they are suffering until they get out of their habitual behavior, such as the case with addiction? What is going on here that allows a person to "suffer" but not realize that they are "suffering" until after the fact? — darthbarracuda
What you can't be mistaken about is (1) your present phenomenal experience as your present phenomenal experience, and (2) your present evaluations/assessments as your present evaluations/assessments. — Terrapin Station
I don't think we can be mistaken about our current experiences, but we can be mistaken about past ones. — andrewk
What do you man by "present" here? — Metaphysician Undercover
As far as I understand, time is included within a frame of reference, so there is no such thing as neither past nor future relative to a frame of reference, that would require an non-temporal frame of reference. — Metaphysician Undercover
What you can't be mistaken about is (1) your present phenomenal experience as your present phenomenal experience, and (2) your present evaluations/assessments as your present evaluations/assessments. — Terrapin Station
However, we can be mistaken in all of our subsequent reasonings about them (I am convinced that I really saw a green chair, but I was actually hallucinating). — aletheist
What you can't be mistaken about is (1) your present phenomenal experience as your present phenomenal experience, and (2) your present evaluations/assessments as your present evaluations/assessments. — Terrapin Station
I don't think we can be mistaken about our current experiences, but we can be mistaken about past ones. — andrewk
Every experience, by the time it has occurred, is in the past. This, along with your statement as a premise, produces the logical conclusion that we can be mistaken about all experiences. — Metaphysician Undercover
No, the narrative ("Oh look, a tree.") may be in the present, — Real Gone Cat
But doesn't this argument suggest that experience may be doubted? — Real Gone Cat
No… The experiential content of my present sensations is incorrigible. — lambda
At any rate, so MU and Real Gone Cat, are you claiming that your awareness is in the past? — Terrapin Station
Are you saying, "Oh look-a tree" in the past? — Terrapin Station
Okay, but that's what I'm talking about--the present mental content, whatever it is. — Terrapin Station
Why do you believe that there is such a thing as "the present mental content"? — Metaphysician Undercover
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