3,078
edits
Changes
→The phenomenological cage
Yet for more then 2500 years of epistemology, [[The Historircal overview of the phenomenological cage|nobody had found a reliable way to establish the relations of perception or knowing about the “real world”]]. To demonstrate the problem of knowledge, we may use the thought experiment of the “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat brain in a vat]”. In this thought experiment, you are asked to find a reliable way to know if you really exists as you perceive it, or you are actually a brain in a vat, which gets it's sensory inputs from a computer, that simulate the perceived world.
Till today nobody was able to find a reliable answer to this question. People sometime suggest that Hillary Putnaham had found a way, but her conclusions say otherwise. (ref) she He conclude that we can not distinguish between realty and virtual experience<ref>Putnam, H. (1981): "Brains in a vat" in Reason, Truth, and History, Cambridge University Press; reprinted in DeRose and Warfield, editors (1999): Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader, Oxford UP</ref>.
Therefore, we have to set for now an axiom that says: