Our sense organs function as filters making it impossible to make any objective statement about the external world.
If our sense organs function as filters we cannot use them to make any objective statement about the external world -- unless we possess a Maxwell's demon with access to absolute knowledge who observes the product of our sense organs' operation, and acts on this product as we supposedly do on the outside world. (CS 458)
This page was last updated on July 9, 1996, by Rob Sable.