Jean Baudrillard maintains that for human beings there is no
such thing as reality any more; that all we perceive are simulacra and
simulations. But to maintain this, he would have to himself have access
to that reality so as to compare it with these simulations and simulacra
and find them wanting. But if he can indeed do that, then his initial
statement is false, for at least for Baudrillard, who last time I checked
was himself a human being, there would have to exist a perceptual
ability that per-ceives (sees through) the simulacra and simulations to
the underlying reality so that he might compare them with such a reality,
discern differences and distinctions, and thus have empirical grounds to
make his pronouncements concerning them.
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