Sensory Perception

[Akincana Krishna dasa]

Here's another source of knowledge: authority. If someone else that I trust has an experience that I haven't had, I might decide that I accept it, because I trust that person.

For example, I've never been to the South Pole. But it's on every map of the world, and surely lots of people have gone. So even though I've never had any kind of perception of it personally, I still know it's there, because others have told me.

There are lots of highly technical scientific theories and and mathematical proofs that I don't understand at all. But I'm inclined to think many are true, based on the expertise and experience of others.