Full Idea
The loss of any one of the senses entails the loss of a corresponding portion of knowledge, and since we learn either by induction or by demonstration, this knowledge cannot be acquired.
Gist of Idea
Some knowledge is lost if you lose a sense, and there is no way the knowledge can be replaced
Source
Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 81a37)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.135
A Reaction
This suggests Jackson's 'knowledge argument', that raw experience contains some genuine knowledge, for which there is no mechanistic substitute. Not that I accept….
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