[FRIAM] What is an object?

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"the validator of our senses can only be our senses" waaay oversimplifies the set of experiences.  If there were only 1 type of experience, then you'd be right.  But there are (at least) many types of experience.  And 1 experience of one type can "validate" a different experience of an entirely different type.

Not only can this happen in *sequence* as you assume.  But it can also happen in parallel.  My hand can feel the elephant's trunk at the exact same time my eyes can see the elephant.  It's not clear to me what you gain through such (over-)simplification.


On 07/19/2018 02:17 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> I was just making the banal philosophical point that the validator of our senses can only be our senses.  So a hunch “about the world” is nothing more than a hunch about future experiences of the world.  As Harmon would say, we can never touch the noumenal.

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