How does man know an object exists, without touching it.
2007-05-19 18:23:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
How does he know that it exists after he has touched it?
This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.
This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.
At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.
We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.
These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.
From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.
I hope that helps to answered your question.
Love and blessings Don
2007-05-20 02:30:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't touch the Moon yet you believe it is real by using your eyesight to look at it.Or is it an illusion.
2007-05-19 23:21:54 · answer #2 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By having prevoius knowlegde that such an item, or one like it exists.
2007-05-19 18:26:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, consider this; all the information you receive about things around you are all just electric impulses entering your brain...we could all be plugged into a giant computer and not know it. think Matrix
2007-05-19 18:32:26 · answer #4 · answered by the Jet 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
through sensation other than touch. although, we can't truly Know that anything exists, right ;-)
2007-05-19 18:32:34 · answer #5 · answered by zifmer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋