Since the dawn of time, man has pondered the endless quest to answer the.
perennial question of knowledge and what we really know. Ha ha!! Just.
kidding, only wanted to get your attention! Let me start over&We have.
been born and raised into a carnal and primitive society, using touch and.
sight and sound as our sources of knowledge and learning. Babies cling to.
their tender mothers in knowledge that they will be secure and protected.
and children who bear the burn prints of hot plates on their once.
flawless hands now know the reality of the glowing coils. Youth attend.
school and pursue learning of the arts and sciences to morph into adults.
and become an asset to society. Yet, how do we know the childhood hot.
plate scars that we bear on our phalanges are really there? Was the.
excruciating pain really sent from the nerve to the fingers to the brain.
in an indubitable experience? Did we really latch on to our mothers in.
hopes of receiving love and comfort? I argue that we really have no.
knowledge of the external world.
As I was pondering this cleverly assigned topic, I feel the.
need to distinguish and define the term knowledge of the external.
world. So, here it is: external knowledge: Familiarity, awareness, and.
understanding gained through experience or study of objects that exist.
independently of the mind. With this, let me clarify my claim; anything.
we do or know, we can not prove.
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Children lying in the crib cry out in to the night only to awake.
themselves from an incubus that seemed so looming and real. As we grow.
older dreams retain their powerful illusions sense of realism. I myself.
had a dream last night, where I was living in my old house and for a.
spilt second after awaking I thought I was still there. The potency was.
so strong it convinced me even in supposed waking reality I thought I was.
in a different location. What makes man so sure that we arent living.
our lives and productive endeavors in a giant dream, an illusion? The.
