Is their a non-tautologicla way of proving the reliability of the senses?

Question

I have been told by a philosophy professor that the answer is no.

Sha, thanks for eloquently wasting space and showing how pompous you are.

Answer 1

I gotta agree with your philosophy professor. In any system of knowledge, there will always be certain indeterminate statement that one can make. In other words, there will be some things that we don't know.

Often those cases involve self-referentiality. For example, a sentence that refers to itself...

"This sentence is False"

Cannot be determined to be True or False. When a thing refers to itself, it tends to tear jagged holes in our minds where clean, crisp thought used to be. Same is true with the nature of our senses.

We can't truly examine how we know the things we know, or perceive the things we see, since that involves using our senses to verify our senses. And there's that self-referential nature again, this time causing us to wonder if we are seeing, hearing, feeling what we see, hear, and feel, or if we are merely brains in a jar being stimulated to see, hear, and feel in our lives.

Answer 2

No - not that I am aware of. But one might as well answer whether any knowledge is not ultimately tautological. Certainly Mathematics is tautological - see Bertrand Russels comments on this, and Mathematics is at the root of all science. Tautology arises when analysis is carried out and comparison is made. It also arises when we examine something subjectively. But a point always comes where questions run out and things are as they are because that is how they are.

Answer 3

If I had any idea of what your misspelled and grammatically incorrect question was asking, Id happily answer.

Spell check is a wonderful thing, makes you look good. In terms of grammar, you should use the word "there" (as in "where? here or there?" a place) in this sentence. The word "their" is possessive; Dick and Jane went to school and wore their uniforms.

And anyway, the professor is probably right.

Answer 4

I am not sure myself, but I would talk to a neurobiologist, neurologist, or some scientist dealing with cognition, before I took the word of a philosophy professor.

Answer 5

I agree with your prof.
Senses is all you get to perceive the world. Any confirmation of senses is through your senses! And this is tautology.
Basically you cannot be in the boat and see this boat from the outside.

Answer 6

For who and why. Reliability for sense usage is based on sense co-ordination, not on language usage for description. Nothing is 100% reliable in the infinity of time. to increase sense reliability when failure is identified, identify the negator. To do that you need fast consciousness. To have fast consciousness you need consciousness sense feedback to concretely use the senses to sense their own activity.

Answer 7

the matrix......


neo is the one