We all agree that our 5 empirical senses are a means of gaining "perception of any external experience"
Here is where you completely lose me.
What are the other means by which we perceive reality?
The woman in the woods who describes what she saw with her 5+ senses.
That gang at the watercooler in the morning telling you what happened after you left the Christmas party.
The pictures taken by your friends of a trip to the Grand Tetons.
If you are blind, the chance to touch the statue of David - indeed even if you are not blind - as a way of grokking what David may have been in the past - even if reconstructed as it is in the imagination, but not having alien tentacles sprouting from it head and large wheel-like things instead of what we generally regard as human feet.
etc.
2nd hand evidence.
- xongsmith
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