Re: Do you agree...
Thank you , I agree with most of the text that you have put up with an admirable logical dexterity, however I beg to differ on a couple of things. Our basic instinct of survival comes from a basic cognitive process of getting realization and appreciation of the fact that we are alive, the first lesson for human intelligence towards a long ride to the intellect starts from a very basic perception of “living”. Once the perception about being alive has been written into the memory, the mechanism to guard the life gets initiated with a condition to appreciate a threat .The noesis of threat comes mostly from sensory perceptions, unless one is delusional
Here is the point and I agree with you, the world that is out there is out of our reach, because we can not think of a world that we can not comprehend by sensory or intellectual perception.
I completely agree with you. But there are certain innate traits within humans that have nothing to do with senses. Like our basic instinct of survival. I'm also quite certain that you already aware of the Socratein proof of rationalism that proved the knowledge of geometry (the Pythagorean theorem to be exact) that a completely uneducated boy possessed. You have to concede that there is more to knowledge than just the senses. The primary reason being that if you are an absolute empiricist, there is no where you can go with it. Heck, even David Hume had to concede that there are certain things that the senses cannot account for. In addition, Hume was also a huge skeptic where as I prefer to think that there is indeed a world out there that exists outside of my perception.