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Originally Posted by Lyenae  You are linked through the world only through your senses. Senses can and are often deceived. Your fundamental symbolic framework cannot EVER circumvent that sense link to the world. Therefore you can NEVER be sure of what is true or not, you can never be sure of what the world REALLY is, evolution or otherwise. |
Yea, this is technically true, but what is this type of skepticism
*ever* going to accomplish? It is technically a valid point, but practically speaking it is preposterous and meaningless. You aren't going to just walk off cliffs or not study for tests because there really is no way to prove that you REALLY will die or really fail that test; you are going to act exactly the same as if you had 100% faith that your senses accurately reflected reality.
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Originally Posted by Lyenae The answers lie elsewhere. |
You said yourself we are linked to the world only through our senses. So we therefore have no access to the answers. And even if we did, how would we
really know those were the answers? See, this goes on infinitely.
In short, while technically true, the "we can't really know" argument is meaningless and preposterous. Which makes statements like "evolution is definitely true" not the epistemological error you try to say it is.