(March 26, 2019 at 7:32 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: On the subject of "Knowing one's limits"
You can probably estimate within the nearest meter how far away a window is from you at this very moment.
You probably can't estimate within the nearest meter how far away the top window of the Empire State Building in NYC is from you.
Knowing the limits of your ability to estimate distances, weights, sizes of things that are very far away from you, you should be able to reasonably say
"I don't know. That object is too far away. It's too massive. I couldn't possibly even begin to estimate it's attributes with my own senses."
But now, let's say someone says they know without a doubt how large something is that they cannot measure. It's unmeasurable and yet they believe they KNOW how large it is. They know it's infinite. An attribute that can't be measured, but yet they believe that they know it.
What are we to make of someone who uses their imagination to go beyond their known limits of perception ?
Is this person delusional ?
Approximately 1 metre an 14, 397,000 metres respectively, give or take.
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