The Treachery of Perception: A pictorial argument for idealism
Posted: 30/06 -10 Filed under: English | Tags: Descartes, idealism, Magritte, perception, pipe, skepticism 2 Comments »This guy is not seeing a real pipe, nor a painting of one. What he sees is at most two images of perception (one for each eye); perhaps only an image of mental representation. The physical painting, as well as the rest of reality external to mind, can never truly be seen, by him or by us.
Metaphysics diagram
Posted: 12/08 -09 Filed under: English | Tags: agnosticism, Descartes, diagram, dogmatism, dualism, Kant, metaphysics, monism, nihilism, skepticism, solipsism, speculation, transcendental idealism 2 Comments »
Questions are invited.
