RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
January 20, 2017 at 2:51 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2017 at 2:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 20, 2017 at 2:42 am)emjay Wrote: But ultimately I need convincing in a way I don't think you or anyone can do, because there's no way I can know if you and I (assuming you have 20 20 vision) see the same thing when we look at an objectWell, I wouldn't go that far.....
Quote:or if there is some subtle difference between what I consider 'flat' and what you see.Consider a far more mundane divergence. Assume for the moment that we -are- looking at prcisely the same thing, pretend that you're a direct realist...and that we see things as they are because that's the way they are....and we -still- might not see the same thing, if for no other reason than us both looking through ever so slightly different eyes. Some portion of my eye has damage at some point, yours at anther point. An odd bulge here, a concavity there.
Quote:My intuition is that it's flat, but you may see the same thing. But there's no way to compare and there's also no way to rule out the possibility of my mind coming up with that conclusion somehow for its own sake. I don't know how to put that. In my view, the neural model is extracted from what (sensory data) it's got to work with so my actual neural model could have essentially compensated in some way for the deficiency in what it represents.I can help you put that into easy terms. You have unreliable or less than certain means of determining the uniformity of our qualitative experiences even assuming or being in the the presence of a quantitatively identical object.
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