The old skool thread

[Sailor Steve]

Well there is also the problem of personal mental perceptions, which have nothing to do with that article's subject, but ultimately cause similar problems.

Originally Posted by TarJak

Does that make this post unreal or simply perceived to be so?

Are you referring to the difference in perception physically, as in how the post is percieved on the page, or mentally, as in the difference between what you mean in writing it and what the reader thinks you mean?

This, in a completely different context, is also true of history. We don't know what happened in Rome two thousand years ago. We only know what people at the time wrote down. Were they recording history, or just spreading gossip? Can any modern translations be trusted? Did it happen at all?

How about your own personal memories? Are you absolutely certain that what you remember happening yesterday really happened the way you remember it? What would the people who experienced the same events say?

I like ice cream. My friend likes ice cream. I assume that it tastes the same to him as it does to me, but does it really? I can never know the answer to that.

Ain't philosophy wonderful?