Abstract
A friend of mine is fond of saying ‘I don’t believe in facts, facts change’. But is that a fact? There are all sorts of difficulties about knowing things. Here are three. Immanuel Kant stated: ‘As the senses never enable us to know things in themselves, but only their appearances, all bodies must be held to be nothing but mere representations in us, and exist nowhere else than merely in our thought.’ We have no God-like comprehension of the billions of particles around us. We do not experience the curvature of space, the mutability of time. We cannot know the world. We can only know about the world through our senses. And the senses do not report directly to our conscious mind. They are filtered, interpreted and modified by an active process of perception, a process through which our mind constructs preliminary internal models out of sensory data. …
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