(September 21, 2013 at 9:48 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Back as the 1760's, the famous philosopher Immanuel Kant proposed that our knowledge of the outside world depends on our modes of perception.
It's interesting that you mention that, because Kant used that argument to demonstrate that metaphysics like the arguments in the OP could never be used to ascertain truth.
To the OP, I've only been briefly introduced to the arguments, but both Kant and Hume make good arguments for why the arguments you've been presented are nonsensical.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
