John C. Medaille wrote:
> A self evident statement is one which is not reducible to
> any other statement and in which, once the terms are
> grasped, the truth is immediately seen. Such statements
> deal with formal relations only.
"Cogito, ergo sum."
Experience is temporal.
Humans perceive causal relationships between objects of experience.
etc.
We may not be able to produce a Misean argument by treading
this path, but we cannot simply forget about Kant and Descartes.
Cheers,
Alan Isaac