Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Mon, 19 May 2025 07:55:43 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :

However, if our rationality is just an epiphenomenon, how can we be
confident in our perception of any external truths?

 
How does the justification for that question follow from the assumption?

Yikes! The classic self-referential paradox indeed!

If our rationality is merely an epiphenomenon, then the very act of
questioning our confidence in external truths using that rationality
becomes suspect. It's like asking if a shadow can accurately measure the
object casting it.

The tool we're using to doubt the validity of our perceptions is itself
potentially unreliable if the initial assumption holds.

So, while the metaphysical location of eternal truths remains a mystery,
the logical inconsistency of our current line of inquiry is, ironically,
quite empirically evident.