Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I just don't understand this statement.
It means that although you may or may not the "reality" that's accepted by the majority of people out there, what comes first is the reality you see. Like i said earlier, this doesn't apply to things that are obvious, but rather to things that you have to "think about". For example:
The majority of people might not see things the way i do concerning this subject. But i do. It's my opinion, and therefore it's how i see this little piece of reality. Therefore, reality is in the eye of the beholder. 'Course, this applies to opinions, but also other things which i'm too lazy to enumerate
~wickerman~
Our perception of the external world begins with the senses, which lead us to generate empirical concepts representing the world around us, within a mental framework relating new concepts to preexisting ones.
There is the possibility of discrepancies between the external world and the perceiver' s impressions, the possibility of our senses deceiving us.
Viewed in that light, "making sense" is perhaps putting the standard of reason against what our senses perceive.
From our senses we generate empirical concepts to explain the world, but to give sense to empirism we must make use of our intuition. There is no way to prove the affirmation "The empirirism is true", we must use our intuition to understand its validity, or if you want... our faith to believe in its truth. Its difficult to perceive that, but we must make use of intuition, or faith to give to say that empirism is true. This way empirism makes sense because we think that, it is a opinion.
When something makes sense
"Making sense" to a large extent means self-evidencing. Something doesn't require an explanation; we just know from experience that this is a reliable mainstay of existence. As commonly understood, eg, it makes sense that two solid objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time, or that 2+2=4.
Problems happen when frames of reference cross. For instance, there are theories in physics which are truly, in their own way, beautiful. They have such elegance that they "must" be true. But that is not the same as experimental verification.
Re: When something makes sense ?
Originally posted by Atlantis001
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 ?
I agree, because when we do not understand something or it does not make any sense, then we can say that it does not exisit.
Peace,
Amanda