To a person who was born blind... can images ever be proven to exist?

[Anonymous]

A little philosophical puzzle for you

[CountessSarah]

Yes.

Because the blind person should be able to set up tests for the sighted people that they would be able to pass. An initial skepticism from blind people is justified. But any test they set up would quickly reveal that there was definitely some bizarre phenomenon that other people were using to identify spacial awareness and objects without needing to use the methods the blind person would require.
I /imagine/ this /is/ a process most blind people go through. Though they inadvertently test the sighted peoples claims just through their daily lives. Having sighted people identify things without touch or being able to hear a discerning noise must be something young blind people find unexplained to start with and just sort of accept and get used to.

Now, if my familiarity with anons on this site is anything to go by, this is probably a poor attempt at a gotcha that's misfired. If you tried to apply this blind-skepticism-of-sighted-people to atheism/theism, then the results are reversed. Because the theist is unable to demonstrate that there's a real phenomenon behind their claims. If theists (Sighted people) did have some extra sense that was hidden to me as an atheist (The blind person), then they'd be failing to pass the tests, suggesting that their sight was a false claim.

[NathanDavis]

yes... you can tell them about how an entire dark black pitch image looks you the non-blind person

and they they will "see" exactly what you mean... lol

[jshm2]

Yes.

Though they can never see them.