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Originally Posted by craig1120
Are you saying that there is nothing interfering with our connection to objective truth? There is no such thing as bias? We have no filter through which we interpret the world?
I'm saying the "world stands on its own" and in seeking knowledge Man is included in the issue. I haven't finished as of yet but hope to display the idea of "truth" within thinking.
Of course I may see the movements of the sun as Copernicus whereas in the 5th century the Ptolemaic approach held fast . Believe it or not each of these perspectives have good legs but I can't speak to this as "bias".
My perspective of "bias" is seeing Mary based upon my feelings and expecting Jean to "see" Mary in the same way or to have the same feelings. My feelings are my own and Jean's feelings are his own and i shouldn't expect him to have the same [perspective as mine if I am dependent upon feelings.
It is the critical issue as the "world speaks to us" and the work of the searcher for truth is an exploration within thinking which I haven't as yet finished in this thread.
It goes on and on but of course it is possible and very likely for 2 people to observe the world and obtain different "truths" for man is a limited being and as the adage of the "tree" observed from different perspectives acknowledges, seeing an tree from different vantage points helps us in our search for knowledge.