When something makes sense ?

Everything is judged to be true or not, depending of it makes sense or not. But when something makes sense ? Theres a rule to it ? What leads me to think about this question is when we think about reality. For example, it "makes sense" to say that my computer exist, so I say that it exist, and probably everyone will agree with that, but why does that makes sense ?

Funny....had a conversation with my dad aboot two days ago abioot that.....I think something "makes sense" when it is the right thing to do at the moent (that's when actions make sense) or when a statement is the truth (when you talk aboot reality) .... although of course we can't really 100% ever know if something "makes sense"

Atlantis got brave and started a thread....whooooo

Does it make sense that you say your computer exists...you have to define exist, I think....maybe not, but what about other unexplainable things...lets say entities...do they exist or not...what are the rules for that...some say they do and swear they've seen them...others say no way...prove it to me.....Is it things making sense, or do you have to back it up with facts...Some things we just don't have all the facts yet...maybe haven't discovered a way to measure certain things for us to have certain proof.

I was thinking that maybe "to make sense" is a individual thing, like Bardock said "when our actions make sense", so maybe something make sense when its makes us feel safer. Its safer to believe that the world exist, that my computer is real, that my bedroom is real, etc. It is like to say that "sense" which is directly associated with truth, and falsity in the objective reality, is also associated with some kind of individual need for certainty, which is subjective, and personal.

When we talk about reality it always make us not so sure if something makes "sense"(or if something is true), cause after all reality is external to us, but if "sense" itself is like a individual need for certainty, and if "sense" is related to the truthhood of things, then truthhood could depend on the individual, right. Like if we say that this reality is real, just because a individual need for certainty.

Originally posted by debbiejo
Atlantis got brave and started a thread....whooooo

"Makes sense" is not a good requirement for judging things in the real word. There are many things that exist but do not make sense to us. One example is optical illusions, your sense can deceive you.

And People.

Originally posted by debbiejo
And People.

Do you mean people like cking, jury, and Chibi Boy?

something makes sense only when one has learn to accept. After acceptence, there's faith and believe, which is why people always have arguement or offended about various stuff because they have grown used to it...?!?

It comes down to the individual....some people just don't have any common sense....They can be very intelligent in one area, but lacking in another to such an extreme...that you wonder if god left out an ingredient....really.

Originally posted by Atlantis001
Everything is judged to be true or not, depending of it makes sense or not.

Things are not judged to be true or not depending on how much "sense" they make, they're judged by proof, evidence. It's that way with mathematics, with physics, with anything involving laws.

Originally posted by Atlantis001
But when something makes sense ? Theres a rule to it ? What leads me to think about this question is when we think about reality. For example, it "makes sense" to say that my computer exist, so I say that it exist, and probably everyone will agree with that, but why does that makes sense ?

Basic logic. Start from hypothesis, reach a conclusion 😬 . As for the "What's real" and "What's not real", that's not tied to "making sense" either. Reality is in the eye of the beholder. At least that's how i see it.

~wickerman~

What leads me to think about this question is when we think about reality. For example, it "makes sense" to say that my computer exist, so I say that it exist, and probably everyone will agree with that, but why does that makes sense ?

because "reality" is determined by the perception of the majority........those who do not percieve "reality" as the majority are said to have a psychosis. That's the only real reason anything "makes sense". Who knows........the entire planet could be filled with psychotic idividuals with a skewed perception of reality with only a few sane humans here and there..........locked up in institutions.

And thus the heretics...

Originally posted by Evil Dead
because "reality" is determined by the perception of the majority........those who do not percieve "reality" as the majority are said to have a psychosis. That's the only real reason anything "makes sense". Who knows........the entire planet could be filled with psychotic idividuals with a skewed perception of reality with only a few sane humans here and there..........locked up in institutions.

That's how I've seen it, I just never tell anyone. 😕

Talking about what makes sense is senseless.....what made sense yesterday might not make sense today.

I feel ignorant. I don't think I understand the question.

Originally posted by Wickerman
Things are not judged to be true or not depending on how much "sense" they make, they're judged by proof, evidence. It's that way with mathematics, with physics, with anything involving laws.

Interesting point this one that "Things are not judged to be true or not depending on how much "sense" they make" and nothing wrong with that, but that would mean that science is not about the truth. What I´m trying to show is that you already tried to give sense to the sentence ;
"Things are not judged to be true or not depending on how much "sense" they make", when you wrote it. I´m not trying to be irritanting, but that was a good example to explain what I wanted. 🙂

"What is considered proof" is considered proof, just because it make sense. Science is empirical, just because it make sense for it to be that way.

Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
I feel ignorant. I don't think I understand the question.

Yup... I didn´t make sense.

Your irritating.

Originally posted by Atlantis001
Interesting point this one that "Things are not judged to be true or not depending on how much "sense" they make" and nothing wrong with that, but that would mean that science is not about the truth. What I´m trying to show is that you already tried to give sense to the sentence ;
"Things are not judged to be true or not depending on how much "sense" they make", when you wrote it. I´m not trying to be irritanting, but that was a good example to explain what I wanted. 🙂

"What is considered proof" is considered proof, just because it make sense. Science is empirical, just because it make sense for it to be that way.

I was talking about more basic things that are irrefutable. For example, you see two boxes, box A and box B. Box A is obviously larger, not because it makes sense, but because box B can fit inside of box A. That much is obvious. You see a man shoot a bottle. The bottle doesn't break because "it makes sense", it breaks because of the bullet going through it.
If you're talking about less obvious things, such as me typing this because IMO it makes sense, that's basic logic, like i said earlier. Everybody uses basic logic whether they realise it or not. Now, when i say basic logic, i don't mean universally accepted fact, but rather rules of applying logic that they use subconsciously.

~wickerman~

Yeah... maybe its just a matter of opinion, but I think that it makes sense to say that "box B fit in box A, because A is larger", or that a "fact is a fact, because we saw it happen", obivious would be in this perpective like another word for "making sense".