[MD] Probability

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> Are you certain Philosophy 101 says our knowledge of reality is pretty
> much guess work?
> 
> [Case]
> I think most would dress it up in prettier language but that is the
> bottom line.

I thought you said we can't be certain of anything, that is, there is 
no "bottom line" given that truth is always provisional. I am wrong?

 > > [Case]
> > It should be fairly obvious that our senses are restricted in the
> > wavelengths we are sensitive too, the frequencies we can here the
> > chemicals we can detect. We have evolved a fairly decent set though.
> 
> [Platt]
> Have not our instruments overcome some of our senses' shortcomings?
> 
> [Case]
> Instrumentation can extend our senses but not overcome the problem.

Why do you consider the reality of consciousness to be a "problem?"

> [Platt]
> How would knowledge of reality gleaned from direct perception differ
> from our "second hand" knowledge of reality?
> 
> [Case]
> Not at all. That is what I said: knowledge gleaned for our senses is all
> the knowledge of reality we have.

So what's the problem?

> There are those who subscribe to knowledge obtained through revelation.
> You might find them more to your liking. But this still does not give
> you direct knowledge of anything.

There's also knowledge from reason, intuition and authority. Or so says 
the Philosophy 101 course I took.