Monday, March 23, 2009

What do we know ...

... and how do we know it? The responses to Tom Clark. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

About the most crucial distinction we can make as cognitive creatures is between appearance and reality, between how things seem and how they really are, between subjectivity and objectivity.
It seems worth noting that there is nothing "real" that does not in some way appear to be, and no "appearance" - not even a mirage, which is a real optical illusion - that is not in some way "real."

See also: Tom Clark's Getting Along: Civil Disagreements with a Thinking Christian. (Also from Dave.)

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