(January 17, 2014 at 1:28 am)Polaris Wrote: Your response is like a blind man who questions someone who describes a rose to him.
It's because when I reach out, I feel no rose. I smell nothing. Obviously, not getting anything from the taste department. Most other people I talk to give accounts of the "rose" that are both fundamentally divergent from yours, and a growing number of people with the sense I lack telling me that the rest of my senses are telling me the truth and there really isn't a rose there.
My response is like a blind man who is dealing with someone who seems to think missing one sense makes all the rest not work, too. If I had the sense you insist is there and there was still no convincing change in affairs, you'd just move the goalposts and draw upon an infinite regression of arbitrarily-assigned and utterly imaginary special abilities that you will insist I lack.
Your argument is an insult to anyone's intelligence.