The Liminal
There are two main paths of exploration that we can follow. Science and Philosophy. Sensory observation and Thought. Body and Mind. It should be apparent to anyone that neither can really exist isolated from the other. Aristotle is thought to have believed that things could be worked out purely by thinking; there was no need to actually test anything. Obviously we can dispel this. Much of what he knew came from the input from his senses, as is the case with all of us. Unless everything we experience is some kind of hallucination (which is not implausible), we have to accept that there is some kind of outside world influencing our sensors. This information in turn necessarily informs our deductive prowess. Scientists like Richard Dawkins hate the idea of anything existing without your perceiving it, from external stimulus through the senses; everything we know, including abstract things like how much your dog loves you, comes from external evidence. This, as Science would say, impl