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We encounter the world through our senses; but does what we sense delineate what we think? Isn’t it possible to conceive some things that I could never confront via sensation? We experience the world as something more or less understood, but does recognising what we see, taste, touch, hear or smell involve nothing more than submitting ourselves to stimuli? How much do we contribute to the way the world appears to us in experience? How could mere conglomerates of sensation yield the principles we use to judge anything? Perhaps these guiding principles are not derived from, but known independently of, experience. If these principles are grasped a priori, then do they track the way the world is or just articulate the way the world appears to me? |
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