On 20 February 2014 08:31, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Ghibbsa and Russell, > > There can be absolutely no doubt of an external reality independent of > humans. As I said, all of common sense, and all of science makes this > fundamental assumption. > > We have eyes, and other sense organs, so we can sense that external > reality. Do you deny we have eyes? If not, then what are they for? > > According to this argument, the white rabbit with a pocket watch I dreamt about last night is part of an external reality.
And eyes aren't "for" anything, at least not according to evolutionary theory. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
