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To: Greg or e who wrote (901616)	11/17/2015 9:05:42 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574786

We use philosophy every time we try to communicate with one another. Nonsense. That is the sort of things that philosophers tell each other to "prove' they are still relevant. Philosophy stopped contributing anything to our total body of knowledge in the 1800s as the sciences started to hive off into their various specialties, except for possibility of ethics. Epistemology made a bold start, but quickly devolved into tail chasing because there is no real way to prove that we know anything at all in a strictly objective sense. The whole argument about real and fake cows and barns illustrates this point. And that is despite the fact that it hasn't kept up with science. Going on 30 years ago, it started to become clear that our sensory systems lies to us in systematic way. What we perceive as reality is just our sensory system idea of what is going on, and in many cases what will be going on. Talk about a brain in a bottle...