re: #1033 Salamantis

Willful ignorance may be good enough for the likes of you, but it is not good enough for most people, thank goodness, or we would still be shambling around naked and eating tubers and raw meat while gutterally Ook! Ook!ing as we fearfully wave tree branches of appeasement at the threatening thunderstorm god.

Knowledge is knowing which tubers are safe to eat..(won’t kill you)… yet you seem to think someone that can do that are ignorant while at the same time thinking this babbling b.s. is knowledge… see below:

A perceptual modality without a possible object of sense is a contradiction in terms, and a perceptual modality that was deceitful in the Cartesian sense would have negative survival value for its host, and hence for itself. Although the thing-in-itself is different than is the thing-for-us, the former must contain the latter as aspects of itself. In other words, it must exist within-itself in such a manner that its apprehension by our sensory modalities produces what we perceive when we apprehend it. Thus, objects of perception – insofar as they are objects of perception, that is, perceivable – must not only be perceivable by means of the perceptual means available to us, but also our perceptions of them, as aspects of the objects (as well as of ourselves), may not contradict the object’s other aspects which are not perceivable by us. The whole object-in-itself must, without internal contradiction, contain all of its constituent parts, including those that may be called the object-for-us, and where aspects of the object-for-us seem to conflict with each other, the whole object-in-itself must reconcile them. If it does not, it is either (a) not the whole but itself a part, or (b) the perceived aspects are not aspects of a single whole. Only on the basis of these considerations does it make sense for us to act in accordance with the information provided by our senses, and only on the basis of these considerations does it make sense that our senses evolved.

There are many forms of ignorance… being educated beyond one’s intellect, for example.