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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (9926)4/17/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Sounds like Kant. He didn't think you could know reality 'cuz your sense perception gets in the way. But in the end he describes a distinction without a difference. We use reason to remove the veil that our senses may impose on the real world, in order to know the real with our intellects, in order not to be fooled by our senses.

In some sense our surest knowledge of what is absolute is contained in relations, mathematical and logical. It's the knowledge of what is absolute in its purest form, with no distortions of sense or measurement. It's surely why geometry held such an appeal to the ancient Greek philosophers. Our modern knowledge of physics revolves around an absolute relation, that of the speed of light in a vacuum. Heisenberg nominated Einstein to the Berlin Academy on the basis of the epistemology contained in Einstein's theories, which Heisenberg thought to be Einstein's greatest achievement. Einstein drove a stake through the heart of the indeterminacy of Kant's cosmology, which ruled until Einstein demolished it and paved the way to objective knowledge of the real world. All of this is better described in Stanley Jaki's The Absolute Beneath the Relative.

Berkeley was an Empiricist, and believed the major source of human knowledge comes from the senses. It's a view that seems to belittle objective reality, emphasizing the sensory. It's an epistemology diametrically opposite to the objective reality posited by Einstein, where sensory apprehension has little value as opposed to the objective facts of nature.
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