Why can't you think about that which has no uniformity with you?

Question

Why can't you think about that which has no uniformity with you?

Answer 1

...not sure what you mean by "uniformity". Do you mean something similar to "familiarity"?

Well, all of our thoughts and mental activity are furnished by what our senses tell us. If this is the case, then it's not surprising that what we think is completely limited by what we perceive and experience in the world. It sometimes is said we can think about something which we haven't experienced by using certain logic tricks e.g. negating something we do know. The cases that are used as examples are very suspicious (at least in my opinion) such as the notion of infinity, nothingness or non-physical existence. For my part I'm slightly skeptical as to whether we can actually conceive (or think about) these things coherently.

There are examples some people use, such as "we can think of unicorns without any experience of them". These are however, as Locke tells us (and, like it or not, most of everyone's  "common-sense" conception of knowledge starts with Locke) "Complex Ideas" - they are the compound of things we HAVE perceived/experienced. In this case, we have combined a horn and a horse.

Hope that was the question you were asking, otherwise all this is completely irrelevent :-S

Answer 2

Because of entropy.

As you move from low entropy, high order, to high entropy, low oder, the term uniformity can apply on either side of entropy.

Thus the term uniformity would need to be defined for the purpose discussing the concept.

Answer 3

Only a ready identity is usable but something demanding time for its description is not a lasting memory but a wonder.