Epistemology

Our relation with the outer reality is mediatized. We have not conexion with universe but through our senses... we obtain sense-data through them.

Senses react to quantum, to variations in their surrondings. I name these variations "events", namely the changes in environment that affect the senses enough to provoque reactions and neurological signals.

So we can't know the beings behind the events, we can only know, think and discuss about the ideas, i. e., the result in our mind of the "events".

Ideas are signs of a language, that is to say, elements with meaning (and linguistic characteristics, semantic, synthactic and morphological). Those meanings, the significations of the thoughts or ideas are the "sense data".



Sense-data is the only real world, the "reality" as per our mind.


We must be aware that the relations, properties and characteristics of ideas ARE NOT the relation, properties an characteristics of the reality itself. Thinking has its own nature, different from reality.


Two examples: thinking as language is composed by "beings" or subjects, characteristics, actions, relationships....

We can say "A human is a primate" and almost everybody will accept and acquiesce. But reality is far from be clear respect of what is a subject ("a"), its delimitation, what is a human (or what's not human), a primate, and so on.


These are only "ideas" and words (relation between language and thinking is a topic for other writing), reality is far from be consistent with it. It's not a bijective relationship between them.


Second example, we establish gradual characteristics in reality (from 0 = poor to 100 rich, let me take a intuitive example)... but this is absolutly arbitrary. It's like Celsius degrees, a human construct, nature it is not cold or hot, we, humans, create that concepts.


So opposites, like cold and hot, do not have existence out of us.

Of course we can use that words/concepts to set up scientifc theories and discussions, but we must be aware of the universe we can reach.