(December 23, 2011 at 10:23 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Well, we could make assumptions, or we could demand evidence and results instead....If your argument held any weight then mollusks would be unable to survive, which they do, despite "knowing nothing" with regards to "all things fundamental". I think you'll need to be a little more specific. When you are a little more specific I think you'll find that the room left for assumptions is of a less practical nature than you'd imagined, and that those assumptions don't actually enable you in any way.
Mollusks - being without consciousness - do not experience 'life' or 'reality' as we do. And yes, that is an assumption.
As we do have consciousness and we do experience life and reality we need to assume things in order to function.
You continually neglect what I'm actually talking about, while continually asserting that I'm wrong. There are fundamental assumptions which we base our understanding of perception off of. We then proceed to 'prove' 'truths' to ourselves, but these 'proofs' and 'truths' are dependent completely on our original assumptions.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
