Different Forms of Sense Perception Lead to Different Capabilities in Deducing Laws
Man is capable of directly perceiving and thus validating the existence of a great deal of physical phenomena—he knows that cars exist, and that they have certain properties which cause them to have various colours and whatnot. But, it takes a great deal more conceptual deduction for him to discover the properties of various sub-atomic phenomena.1 On the other hand, if there were sub-atomic creatures with conceptual consciousnesses, they could directly induce these facts about the Quantum realm, and would have a much harder time deducing facts about macro-scopic objects—the upshot being that having different forms of sense perception does not invalidate sense perception.
Footnotes
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I do not use this in the Kantian sense. ↩