On 20 February 2014 08:31, Edgar L. Owen <edgaro...@att.net> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
