Posted: Apr 14, 2012 6:44 am
asdfjkl wrote:i agree w/ inductive reasoning
but my pt still is:
you cant see what is not self evident.
you cant touch it.
you cant otherwise perceive it.
as if it doesnt exist
from a self-evident perspective whould it not mean that it doesnt exist?
You cant see X-rays, you cant touch X-rays, you cant perceive X-rays, but you can perceive the effects of X-rays.
Therefore you cant perceive X-rays and by your arguments they dont exist because they are not 'self evident', but they have perceivable effects and therefore exist.
Same for magnetic fields. Same for Ultraviolet, radio-waves and all the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum.
There are many things that we cant sense (which seems to be what you mean by self evident) but which we know exist.
You are still wrong if you think only what you observe exists.
You cant observe me, but you can see the effect of my posting. Do I exist?