Sense Experience is to Some degree Homeostatic and thus is not Objective A Legal Opinion By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D.

, Esq., Coif Perpetual (C)Copyright (2011 C.E.) By Anthony J. Fejfar and Neothomism, P.C. (PA) and The American People and the People of God as a Public Domain Copyright. Logical Positivism based upon sense experience is defined as sense experience and logical reasoning therefrom. This means that such a logical positivist approach cannot challenge sense experience, but instead can only reason from such sense experience as a given. The difficulty with this, however, is that sensory illusions exist which render any alleged objectivity of sense experience, invalid. This is because sense experience is to some extent homeostatic. That sense experience is homeotatic means that to some degree, sense experience adapts to the surrounding environment, and thus is not objectively valid. For example:

1. If you put your hand in a bucket of hot water and then place your hand in a bucket of tepid water, the tepid water will feel cold. 2. If you put your had in a bucket of ice cold water and then place your hand in a bucket of tepid water, your hand will feel hot. 3. If you are in a room that has no light in it and then go outside on a sunny day, then the outside will seem brighter than it would otherwise. And, if you go back inside into a dimly lit room the room will seem darker than otherwise. 4. If you hold a 5 pound weight in your hand for 5 minutes, it will seem heavier than it was when you first lifted it.

5. If you put a 5 pound weight in your hand and then put it down and put a 1 pound weight in your hand, the 1 pound weight will seem lighter than otherwise. 6. If you listen to loud music for 30 minutes, your sense of hearing is not as sensitive as it would be otherwise. 7. If you are in a sound proof silent room for 30 minutes, your hearing is more sensitive than otherwise. 8. If you drink something that is sweet and then eat a peach, for example, the peach will not taste as sweet as otherwise. 9. Some people are near sighted and some are far sighted and some have close to 20/20 vision. 10 Some persons have an ear for music and can tell if a music chord is off key or not, and others cannot. 9. Some pictures present an optical illusion. Consider the gestalt switch picture of the beautiful woman and the hag, below:

(Hint: the eye of the had is the ear of the beautiful woman).

Given the foregoing, it is clear that sense experience, as such, is not objective, and is not universal. The cognitional structure of Experience, Understanding, Judgment and Reflection can recognize and appropriately deal with sensory illusions. Thus, we can see that sense experience is to some degree homoeostatic. For an excellent scientific paper on the subject of human sense experience and homeostasis, see, Walter Bradford Cannon, Homeostasis, in the book, The Wisdom of the Body (1932). Accordingly, sense experience based logical positivism is a fraud and invalid. Instead, one could use Midwest Logical Positivism, which is, experience and logical reasoning therefrom. Midwest Logical Positivism allows the person to use his or her or hae imagination, thoughts, intuition, etc. to analyze what status a particular sense experience equalibrium has.