9. He name this error “the gem” or “the worst argument in the world”. He saw the logical fallacy in Platonic forms, Kant’s noumena world, the labour theory of value, Hegelian Idealism and so on. These all added an “extra layer” to reality that isn’t there.
What perceives you perceiving you? “It seems to me that I know, what it is that I know that I know, but what I would like to see, is the ‘I’ that knows me, when I know that I know that I know.
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Irrelevant-we know something exists, even if we can't define it. In fact, it's the only thing we are certain exists.
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“There’s this thing I want to tell you about.” “Great! What does it look like, smell like, taste like?” “No, no. There’s this thing I can’t define, though it’s the essence of particular things” “But you can’t tell me anything about it?” “No, but it definitely exists!”
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Yep, exactly.
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I don’t buy this.
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It's the only thing you can perceive directly and unmediated.
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It assumes an “I” before it starts.
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You perceive an I before anything else.
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Who is this “you” that perceives this “I”. This is the origin of a “gem” as per Stove. Occam’s Razor suggests that the simplest explanation is that there is no “I” or any “thing” perceiving perception.
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