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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
Aren't synthetic truths paradoxical? How can anything be compared to reality when we don't even know what reality is?
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Christ, radical doubt and radical rationalism piss me off.
No, we can't know for sure whether or not this reality is all an illusion forged by a "Master Deceiver." But so fucking what? We seem to be bound to the illusion anyway, and we're not going to find out whether we've been conned or not in this lifetime. Also, if you're so radical in your doubting, why do you still accept the primacy of logic? That wacko Descartes even believed that logic could be another ploy of the deceiver, making someone believe that 2+2=4 when it really equals 5.
Also, is the mind really as reliable as you make it out to be? Consider distorted memories, disorders like schizophrenia, and denial. If the mind were an infallible source of truth, surely the idea that you could forget something or even reconstruct an event in a different way would be impossible.
At the end of the day, radical doubt amounts to intellectual masturbation. It's a useless philosophy that breeds useless intellectuals.