We've all heard of the question where my ''blue'' could be enitrely different from your version of ''blue''. Yet, we somehow (miraculously) agree on the proposition: the sky is ''blue''. — TheMadFool
Taking this line of thought only a little further how do we know we're all thinking the same way? — TheMadFool
We know that people do not think the same way, as we can have two people who are epistemic peers (have same evidence and same rational ability about a given subject) can reach two radically different conclusions on a problem. — Chany
...it's just that the results of said cognition are not the same. — Thorongil
In your example, cognition isn't operating any differently, it's just that the results of said cognition are not the same. — Thorongil
I'll try and give you an analogy. Imagine two people A and B. A is wearing red filter glasses (i.e. allows only red light to pass through) and B is wearing blue filter glasses. Both of them are now shown a white object. As is expected A would see the object as red but would call this white while B would see it as blue and would only know it as white. In this case A's white is different from B's white and yet they'd both agree that the object is white.
That I'm afraid is impossible. The same evidence AND the same rational ability should take everyone to the same conlusion. That however, is beside the point I'm making. — TheMadFool
I think that is why science has become 'the arbiter of reality' for us; real things are nowadays supposedly 'objective'. — Wayfarer
What's important is not that we see the precise same thing, but simply that we can discern it. We can continually reference, and consistently discern it independently. — Wosret
Each experiment is subjective - why else would science require multiple measurements? I fail to understand how a bunch of experiments, each individually subjective, add up to objectivity. — TheMadFool
In this case how do we find common ground? — TheMadFool
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