Sublime

To disentangle what can be accepted from what must be rejected in this argument against the identification of knowledge with perception is by no means easy. There are three inter-connected theses that Plato discusses, namely: (1) Knowledge is perception; (2) Man is the measure of all things; (3) Everything is in a state of flux.

why should we believe that there is any way we ought to feel, that reality dictates our total reaction to life

“The self may not be something, but neither is it nothing. It is simply ungraspable, unfindable.”28

Heidegger’s phenomenological investigations into the nature of being

Man is not a combination of an impersonal rational thinker and a personal will.

These cases differ in the inner needs that color your decision-making, your “epistemic motivations.”

But wait! Anselm points out that there is no possible way for us to form a concept of any being that is greater than the greatest conceivable one. The GCB is the greatest being that we can conceive of—it says so right in the concept itself. Therefore we cannot conceive of a greater being. Yet in the situation just described, we are supposed to be c

be useful for the perceiving organism, our perceptual best guesses need to be experienced as really existing out there in the world, rather than as the brain-based constructions that in truth they are.

one tries to arrive at a conclusion about x by looking at y, which is thought to be analogous