 How do you know everything isn't an illusion? How can you know for certain any particular claim is true? Well Because everything isn't an illusion What does it mean to say something's an illusion that it's not real, but I you know, it's real. I touched it I see it now you're saying No, everything about you is deceiving you About this bottle of water and my question to you you're making a claim is What evidence do you have of that other than it's a mind experiment that you can play in your head What evidence do you have for that? What evidence do you have that all my senses all my faculties a functioning against me a Functioning against me knowing anything that my sense of sight and my sense of touch a Coordinated in a way to deceive me. I mean is there any evidence and the answer is unequivocally. No There's no evidence. You're just a brain in a vat. There's no evidence that you're just What is it the matrix? None of that and therefore Claiming that it's all an illusion is arbitrary There's nothing There's no argument for it and The arbitrary for objectivist has no cognitive status. It's not false To say that everything that is an illusion is not false. It's not true It's just nothing It's not a statement It's not anything that has any cognitive validity and therefore can be dealt with cognitively because how would our approach? Trying to disprove that everything is an illusion I'd have to relate whatever you are claiming to reality to my senses to my mind But wait a minute. You're claiming all of those ain't valid So you're invalidating my only mechanism by which to argue one way or the other So it's a complete mind game that has no value and has no relevance and has no Standing in thinking it's not thinking Talk about fantasy It's pure fantasy with no connection to any reality or to any mechanism by which one can think What was the second part of that? How can you know for certain any particular claim is true? This bottle is in my hand. How do I know it for certain? because I see it Because I feel it Because I can look at it for multiple angles and verify that my first Look was not false. I can bring it closer I can bring it further and I can examine it and I'm still not sure maybe it's not a bottle Maybe so I can actually study its chemical composition, you know, so I Have multiple ways in which to validate What I'm seeing but at the end the validation is I Can see it I didn't feel it I can touch it Right so my senses sometimes can deceive me But my senses are the only way for me discover to discover that they deceive me so at the end of the day the only way to know something for certain is to see it to Touch it to hear it and to validate it By use of reason What we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect Not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's of the fair cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist All right before we go on Reminder, please like the show. We've got a hundred and sixty three live listeners right now 30 likes That should be at least a hundred. I think at least a hundred of you actually like the show Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it, but but at least the people who like it You know, I want to see I want to see a thumbs up. There you go. Start liking it I want to see that go to a hundred all it takes is a click of a click of a thing whether you're looking at this And and you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego It's an issue of the algorithm the more you like something the more the algorithm likes it So, you know, and if you don't like the show give it a thumbs down Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes But if you like it, don't just sit there help get the show promoted of course, you should also share and You can support the show at your own book show Dot-com slash support on patreon or subscribe star or locals And and show you support for all for the work for the value. Hopefully you're receiving from this and And of course, don't forget if you're not a subscriber Even if you even if you just come here to troll or even if you're here like Matthew to defend Marx Then you should subscribe because that way you'll know when to show up You'll know what shows are on when they're on you'll get notified So Yes, like share subscribe support like share subscribe support. There you go easy Do one know all of those please