Quote:I see! And you suppose that because you say it is that way...all the rest of us have to fall into line and accept that it is so?
No. You don't see/can't see/ won't see!
It should be obvious even to someone of even of limited ability that words are linguistic tokens whose meaning is embedded in the context of their usage. You are dogmatically blind to the fact that you are using the context of a belief system which assumes Kant's noumena (i.e. the idea of an inaccessible objective reality). It is blatantly a "God's eye view" which you then project (a la Freud) onto to anybody who has the brains to point it out.
Every student of linguistics comes across Chomsky's infamous "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". Does this have meaning ? It is of course meaningless because of this particular juxtaposition of component words which in other contexts might have meaning. Your juxtaposition of words about "reality" is similarly meaningless because you both deny knowledge of the meaning of is-ness (reality) and simultaneously assert it by chanting the platitude "whatever is - IS".( a la Doris Day... que sera- SERA) That assertion constitutes a belief in Kant's noumena no matter how much you try to squirm out of it.
Wonderful!
Reality exists independently of truth.
Okay, I don't want to go round in circles with you about "naive realism" and "existence". Given the fact that all individuals and all species appear to see the world differently, I would merely ask the question "whose reality existed before that of cognate beings ?" and I defy you or anybody else to answer this, without postulating a "God's Eye View", which is the equivalent of advocating an anthropomorphic "divinity" per se..
Thinkers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but "the ultimate".
Please try and focus for a millisecond: how do you know any of this, if you don't know anything about reality?
You don't know what you understand or not.
You don't know what I know or not.
You don't know what I understand or not.
You don't know that there is a possibility that all of what we sense is nothing more than an illusion.
Etc. etc. etc.
You know NOTHING, remember?
Or do you ??? In which case you know something about reality, Frank. Rejoice!
So you know many things.... but you don't know anything.... but others are deluded if they think they know anything.... but of course they may know many things with the qualifier...
It's all very unclear... I think you may be right about you not knowing much.
