Pragmatic Vs Practical Knowledge- Skepticism
I remember Ghamidi sb. once said something along the similar lines, if you excuse my paraphrasing, ‘we know about our conscious self / our existence more than anything else that we’re aware of. Not even our appearance, in order to see our outer look we need to use a mirror, but this “self” of ours, we don’t need any gadget or anyone else for that matter to tell us that it exists or to know how real it is’.
In this example of insane person, you assumed its the Aql that stopped working but fitrat was intact (capable to figure out right and wrong). But it is quite possible fitrat and Aql are same things and both stopped working. Why fitrat cannot go insane?
Referring to Ghamidi sb’s Zavia series: Experience, Inference and Established History are the necessary components that help us in affirming any given truth. Wouldn’t it be kind of embarrassing to myself completely dismissing all three of these, if i reach a given truth making use of them?
Yes- I think to doubt stuff like this is descending into madness . Let’s take the blue pill- but what if the blue pill is the red pill. But what if it’s not even a pill it’s a chicken leg. But what if what we think what a chicken is is actually a Star Wars spaceship. It think if we want to go crazy we should go big or go home- because it is – in fact- going crazy