(August 26, 2011 at 2:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The sky is blue regardless of what one perceives it to be. This is because the color blue is just a human word for a wavelength of light that exists independent of the human eye. I'm not close, I'm dead on.
Or does it?
/endsolipsism.
Sure, it 'exists' independent of it. But its existence is meaningless. China exists? Sure. But to me it exists as a little chunk of land on a map. I don't add cities, I don't add people... it's blank.
Everything is. What it consists of though... that is the stuff of an individual's perception and imagination
Quote:Yet another reason for separating what we believe from what we know. One can imagine two groups of people stabbing each other over such a disagreement.
Scientific knowledge. All the same effect, but it doesn't turn a simple word into crap that fails itself philosophically.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
