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Perception Philosophy: Part 1

Written by Floris Vermeir
Published May 20, 2005
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Or take the following example out of the Foundation Trilogy of Isaac Asimov: The Mule (in Dutch, het muildier). If somebody is born with a gift that nobody else has, that is unknown, and this person tells about his/her experiences, will they then be seen as true? And how are you going to prove that he/she speaks the truth or does not speak the truth? These questions may sound simple, but try to answer them conclusively, and you may understand why I find them so intriguing.

Different people have for a large part the same observations but there are also different observations possible which one has to take into account in philosophy. I accept the existence of other minds, but they do not necessarily observe the same as I do. For example. The difference between someone who is blind and somehow who is color blind.

I have studied It and am as such influenced by Object-oriented programming. Object-oriented programming is derived from reality and not the other way around, but it is a simpler representation of reality than that reality is. This is good, because otherwise it would become too difficult and unusable. This is also what we humans are good at; we see, for the most part, compound objects as singular objects, even if they aren't, even those objects where with a bit of looking it becomes clear that they are not singular objects.

What makes life easy for humans and other animals, is that 90% to 95% of time we do not notice this, or we stop noticing it after a couple of times. Life would be too complex if we would always note it.

This work on logical atomism, combined with science explains about 60-70-80% of what we see around us. I could read the books about it, but find it much more challenging and interesting to think things through myself.

Now the inclusions will be noted. Rather than repeating certain parts, certain terms, and explaining them every time again, I adapted a part of C++ coding. At the beginning of each program, one or more libraries are included. And there is just written include that file. So the different chapters will have different "includes," such as include spaces.


Includes

Include spaces

Perception philosophy.

From what I've read of Russell's private and public spaces, I can conclude the following:

Private space is our own thoughts. They stay private as long as they are not made public.

Public space is all else.

Our private space is fed by words, and concepts out of the public space. It is known that certain children, the very silent ones, need to be fed vocabulary, so that with the help of that vocabulary and with the help of the concepts they learn, they can express themselves.

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Published: May 20, 2005
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#1 — May 20, 2005 @ 09:26AM — Floris Vermeir [URL]

Spelling check in progress. I though they were out, but I am not so sure anymore, so doublechecking.

#2 — May 21, 2005 @ 06:32AM — Floris Vermeir [URL]

All spelling mistakes should be corrected. e.g. has been replaced by for example. That should make it clearer to read. I really should try not to mix my languages when writing public text.

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