As the one who introduced the title of this thread (Sun, 14 Sep 1997
00:51:21 -0700) I feel obliged to reply.
The point I was making was that we may use two different sources of our
understanding of the world: our senses and minds vs. what other people say
is true ("social metaphysics").
I was inspired by the following dialog:
David R wrote:
>The Nateman wrote:
>>How do you evaluate a guess if you have NOTHING certain in which to
>>judge it?
>
>By criticizing the guess to see if it holds up under fire, instead of
>justifying it by seeing if it agrees with some "rock solid" foundation like
>the "senses".
Regards, Tadeusz (Tad) Niwinski from planet TeTa
tad@teta.ai http://www.teta.ai (604) 985-4159