Even sensory trust requires common life with other men
Evidence
Only because we have common sense, that is only because not one man, but men in the plural inhabit the earth can we trust our immediate sensual experience. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1079
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: This grounds the social construction of perception — connects to Orientalism’s claim that knowledge/experience is mediated rather than raw. Also resonates with Common Sense/consensus building in the culture-as-hegemony toolkit.