Originally Posted by punkworld

No. Even if there was no chair, and his perception was correct, he would still have to account for the discrepancies in language and perception, the possibility of a word having meaning without referring to something in the real world, social context, etc.

I'm sorry, but it seems that to you, philosophy is what it is to many people: a pretty word, roughly equivalent to "deep, wise thinking".

That is not what philosophy is, though. For example, the problem of words and meaning without referents has been a major issue in philosophy for centuries.