"I'm saying that our judgements cannot be trusted because there is no reason to interpret our sense data in any particular way."
It feels like you're looking at television footage and saying "there's no reason to think that this is any more accurate an image than white noise" which is frankly silly. The existence of such a consistent (even if not literally 100% consistent) pattern that persists over time and that can be relatively accurately predicted seems to me to be pretty compelling evidence that the world we perceive is a fairly accurate vision of reality.
Hey, yeah! If our senses were that untrustworthy, how do you explain the ability to accurately predict future sensory events? Unless you propose a Matrix? Unless our senses are subject to an organized lie, I don't see how predictability isn't damning evidence in favor of our senses. And in any case I would think that predictability would finally put an end to the coin-flip equivalency theory you've been throwing at me.
Tag (courtesy of fkusumot): "Please feel free -- nay, I encourage you -- to offer rebuttal."
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My advice to fanboys: Brag about stuff that's true, not about stuff that's false. Predict stuff that's likely, not stuff that's unlikely. You will be happier, and we will be happier.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Sen. Pat Moynihan
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I have the most epic death scene ever in VGChartz Mafia. Thanks WordsofWisdom!







