From: BoshStrikesBack | #089
Out of curiosity, how do you define truth and how do you go about attempting to attain it?
Reality is entirely subjective; the world of appearances, where we connect "facts" (i.e. human impressions of the world, be they inductive, deductive, poetic, or religious) into a potentially infinite number of interpretations. Science is one of these interpretations, and only one of these interpretations.
A subjective reality is a contradiction. Either there is an objective reality, or there isn't any reality at all. Reality exists independent of human thought. While interpretations of reality may differ, things are that are. An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold. There is no situation where an ounce of gold is not an ounce of gold, even if languages and cognitive skills impose a barrier. We cannot live, as you seem to perpetuate, as if we had no knowledge of anything. I don't think you can live this way either.
There is no other way for us to know, understand, or exist outside of our five senses. If you can conceive of another way, then please elaborate for our benefit. But, as it is, any notion of super-empiricism, even if it has substance, is completely meaningless to a human being because human beings have no access to that realm of thought.
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