Ep 165: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 5
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Are Our Senses Telling the Truth?
Popper: Descartes' physics admirable as it was in many ways was mistaken, yet it was based only upon ideas which he thought were clear and distinct. And that the senses were not reliable either, and thus had no authority was well known to the ancients. It is strange that this teaching of antiquity could almost be ignored by modern empiricists, including phenomenalists and positivists. They still believe that it is always we ourselves who are, in our interpretation of what is given to us by our senses. Our senses tell the truth, but we may err. For example, when we try to put into language, conventional, man-made, imperfect language, what they
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