genkaus Wrote:I'm saying that the reliability of our cognitive facilities can be established without referring to to those premises. Let me put it this way. Because evolutionary processes move towards survival value rather than truth value, we cannot conclude that the function of the product of this process (cognitive faculty) would necessarily be to give us the truth value. However, whether or not it does not can be established independently from how it came about....independenty establish how it came about using our cognitive faculties. That's the thing, you cannot escape the fact that by default it is through our cognitive faculties that we're trying to justify our cognitive faculties..
Can it be said that empirical evidence can be used, despite the fact that, again, it is through our cognitive faculties that we process it?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
