(September 17, 2016 at 12:20 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I take issue with the ideas that reality is 'unknowable' with some Kantian fence between us and the noumenal. Just because you cannot know everything about something doesn't mean you cannot know a little bit about it. If sometime was truly unknowable then you couldn't know anything at all about it.
I can know that there's an empty glass on my desk, because that knowledge is independent of anything under or behind my experience of glass-on-desk. I cannot know what framework really underlies my experience of the glass-- is there a mind/matter dualism, an idealistic monism, a material monism, the Mind of God, a brain in a jar, etc.?
EVEN IF I had ideas about reality, and they were 100% bang-on correct. . . how would I know this to be the case? How would I know there were not some additional layer, inscrutable to me, supporting all of that?
