(January 31, 2013 at 12:38 pm)Question Mark Wrote: I wouldn't mind, but when people start telling me what it is I think, that's when I get indignant, and I just stop. There's no point talking to dishonest people, or people who so easily mistake what I'm saying when I think I'm being quite clear. If I'm not being clear, point it out and I'll clarify it. Don't just make up something and make a strawman.
You said originally:
"Unfortunately I don't believe the truth of something is able to be expressed as a percentage, because the reality of something is that it's there, or it's not, but it is only one of those two things, either 100% there, or 100% not there"
I interpretted that as "black or white" It's either true or not according to your words.
I gave you a rather simple explaination of how visual perception is NOT 100% accurate which you did not dispute.
Instead of disputing that "fact", you made excuses for why you trusted it and why you didn't think it was an hallucination.
"Well a hallucination would be when the brain is doing this incorrectly because of some adverse effect, certainly, but I wouldn't say I'm hallucinating when no adverse effects are present. My vision has proven itself reliable to determining my surroundings for the vast majority of my life when I haven't had some detrimental illness or medicine inhibiting my brain's functions"
Without disputing the visual perception analogy, you then reiterate:
" I do not take it on faitht hat there is light present when I see things, I use my other senses at the same time to determine whether what I'm seeing is accurate."
Like I said... If you can't recognise that I see some things as a percentage of "true", then there's not much more we can discuss.
So you call me dishonest, yet believe your visual perceptions which are NOT 100% accurate are in fact, 100% accurate...
Basically what you're doing is asserting that your visual perceptions are 100% accurate using an inaccurate meassuring device. And all of this is done in your head (like mine) based on what?
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