The empiricist claim that the senses cannot be deceptive in themselves.
What misleads us, they claim, is the false interpretations that we place on appearances; which is true.
But it is only true because our senses themselves do not say anything. Only
our interpretations of them do, and those are very fallible.
Adapted from source: The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
Peter Cheevers' books http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=peter+cheevers&x=11&y=14
What misleads us, they claim, is the false interpretations that we place on appearances; which is true.
But it is only true because our senses themselves do not say anything. Only
our interpretations of them do, and those are very fallible.
Adapted from source: The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
Peter Cheevers' books http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=peter+cheevers&x=11&y=14
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