deararistotle

Eric Lindblom

Dear Aristotle:

Harvard University:

"Dear Aristotle, After some research, I’ve found all the claims of Objectivist epistemology to be wholly undeniable and consistent, except for one.

The one I cannot reconcile with myself is the validity of our sensory perceptions.

 To illustrate my dilemma let me use The Matrix the movie as an analogy.

 In the movie, humans are deceived into an alternate reality by having ALL their senses fooled by a computer, which, if you don’t believe in souls, is theoretically possible.

 So, in keeping with the analogy, how can we be sure that ALL our senses are not being fooled and we are not in the matrix?

If such were the case, any appeal to further sensory perception to check whether our senses were being fooled would fail.

 Thanks,

 Chris "

http://www.egoplace.com/aristotle/aa-epistemology.htm

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