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Raw Experience
It is an essential part of the scientific outlook that how things appear to us is not a characteristic of the real independent world. For naturalism, the world appears to be continuous, coloured and textured, but is really composed of discrete particles obeying mathematical laws.
But should common sense be so lightly dismissed? Our raw experience of light might have nothing to do with the physical concept of light, but to describe light to a man blind from birth it is little use telling him it is waves or particles.
But should common sense be so lightly dismissed? Our raw experience of light might have nothing to do with the physical concept of light, but to describe light to a man blind from birth it is little use telling him it is waves or particles.
