How can a person who is born blind know that there's a moon?

dadnbob2015-10-06T09:14:16Z

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They get told?

Gloria2015-10-07T09:45:27Z

How did you, who was not born blind, know what to call the bright light that shines at night. We all learn from someone else's knowledge.

jcherry_992015-10-06T10:01:22Z

They can't any more than they could know what red looks like.

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You can tell the blind person what it does, but you cannot tell them what it is -- exactly. The eye operates in the realm of the 5 senses. This problem lies beyond those senses.

John S2015-10-06T14:02:05Z

How is this related to R&S section? -- other than 1 could answer "by faith" ?

Faith is another way of saying: "Trust what they have been taught/told by someone they trust." -- which is 1 way we can know something. Not by our OWN experience, but by believing in the experiences of others.

Ways in which we can KNOW something:

- sense perception
- inductive reasoning
- deductive reasoning
- emotion
- language
- faith/trust

Some may include imagination and memory - but classically those latter 2 were not considered sources of knowledge.

Phukyahu2015-10-06T09:14:50Z

Those who can see share that knowledge with the blind person.

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