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From: tos@psc70.UUCP (Dr.Schlesinger)
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Subject: Re: Does the moon exist?
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 03:53:47 EST
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    "Exist" seems to mean that I can use idiom of "physics" to
communicate with others about it, and those with whom I communicate
use the same rules to verify the content of the communication. It
doesn't necessarily "prove" anything more than that about the moon as
the next case suggests.
    "Exist" seems to mean that I can use the idiom of spirituality to
communicate with others about it, and those with whom I communicate
use the same rules to verify the content of the communication. If I
report psychic or otherwise transcendental experiences to others AND
they, using the same idion (or "rules") accept my reports, then those
phenomena surely do "exist," even if it's unlikely that I can bump my
head or skin my knee by hitting them.


Tom Schlesinger
Plymouth State College
Plymouth, N.H. 03264
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