[chezlaw]

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I have very few premises that I treat as true ( regardless if they are or not) that I've settled on over time. a) there is an external reality. b) I have free will. and I've slowly moved into accepting c) there is a correlation between my perceptions and external reality, strongly supported by the evidence of evolution.
I spent so much time getting comfortable with those that I don't bother with most discussions about them ( the other person likely doesn't have their gold watch in those areas, let them do their own work).
Does any of the above seem familar to you?


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Very familiar, I wonder how few of us there are who take this type of approach. Mine are a bit different and I don't treat them as true but test any other view against them. Unless some other view can actually be differentiated from 'mine' then I assume its the same.

I call 'mine' humble skeptical realism. That is that:

1) something that seems like me currently exists
2) a real world exists that I can interact with
3) I am a non-special part of this real world

So far, everything that I can understand about the world seems at least as understandable under this view than under any other.

chez