How do we know that there is a real world existing independently of us if its existence can only be postulated in thought? How do we know that we are not dreaming, that our ‘real objects’ are but figments of our imagination? If there are real objects, how can their relationship to thought objects be discovered? What justification, other than reference to the internal criteria of particular systems of thought or theories, can be given for saying that some statements are true or that they ‘correspond’ to or ‘represent their objects?
Andrew Sayer - Method in Social Science
This is the shit I’m dealing with, you guys! Don’t go to grad school!
