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on the traditional empiricist account we do not have direct access to the facts of the external world 00:11:03 that is we do not experience externality directly but only immediately not immediately but immediately because between us and the external world are those what do you call them oh yes 00:11:18 sense organs and so the question is how faithfully they report what is going on out there well to raise the question how faithful is the sensory report 00:11:30 of the external world is to assume that you have some reliable non-sensory way of answering that question that's the box you can't get out of and so there is always this gap 00:11:42 between reality as it might possibly be known by some non-human creature and reality as empirically sampled by the senses whose limitations and distortions are very well 00:11:56 known but not perfectly classified or categorized or or measured
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- on the traditional empiricist account
- we do not have direct access to the facts of the external world
- that is we do not experience externality directly but only MEDIATELY, not immediately but MEDIATELY
- because between us and the external world are those what do you call them oh yes, sense organs
- and so the question is how faithfully they report what is going on out there
- To raise the question how faithful is the sensory report of the external world
- is to assume that you have some reliable non-sensory way of answering that question
- That's the box you can't get out of and so there is always this gap between
- reality as it might possibly be known by some non-human creature and
- reality as empirically sampled by the senses
- whose limitations and distortions are very well
known
- but not perfectly classified or categorized or or measured
- whose limitations and distortions are very well
known
- on the traditional empiricist account
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- Robinson contextualizes the empiricist project and gap thereof, as one of the 4 goals of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
- Robinson informally calls this the "Locke" problem, after one of the founders of the Empiricist school, John Locke.
- Robinson also alludes to a Thomas Reed approach to realism that contends that we don't experience reality MEDIATELY, but IMMEDIATELY, thereby eliminating the gap problem altogether.
- It's interesting to see how modern biology views the empericist's knowledge gap, especially form the perspective of the Umwelt and Sensory Ecology
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- Critique of Pure Reason - empiricism knowledge gap
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