i think we can't use our perceptions to verify the accuracy of our perception. i don't think we can know truth, or really even if there is reality as recongised on a daily basis. but for practical purposes its nice to say that table there. instead of that table that may or may not be there. but the idea its not there is a fun idea to think about. no?
__________________  remember "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescirbe to oursleves is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will "if we can not reconcile all opions, then let us endeavour to unite all hearts."-?"to be is to be perceived"-? "‘We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know’-Robert G. Ingersoll |