Rhythm Wrote:The sun analogy may be failing as it is a predictive statement with known limitations and mechanics. When you say "the sun just imploded" you are actually making an attempt to predict the state of the sun in eight minutes time..
No, when I say 'the sun just inploded' I literally mean right then and not in 8 minutes' time. What will happen in 8 minutes is that I will have the evidence to confirm or deny my statement about the sun that I made in the past.
Quote:We know this, we know why such a statement would be baseless (from the perspective of the observer on earth, or any transmission from a sattelite we have set in orbit -fun aside..we have a few-). You're probably going to need a murkier example for a workable analogy.Agreed. I don't think genkaus agrees though.
I could use a murkier example, but all this example is showing is that I cannot rely on what I see right nowto know the truth right now. This is one type of limitation regarding the nature of light. So in the OP I'm basically asking 'well, so what other aspects of reality am I not perceiving correctly? What can I say with 100% certainty that I know that it's the truth?'
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
