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From: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: The nature of reality.
Message-ID: <377@thirdi.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 02:17:02 GMT
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Reply-To: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Organization: Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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Keywords: reality credibility validity

In article <3011@gryphon.CTS.COM> edk@gryphon.CTS.COM (Ed Kaulakis) writes:
>In article <356@thirdi.UUCP>, sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
>> Consciousness in others, similar to what we experience, cannot be directly
>> experienced (absent telepathy) and therefore must be proved -- e.,g., by
>> behavioral means.
>
>	This is true of skeptical discourse. What does it say about reality?

That just shows what happens when one gets careless in one's mode of
expression.  Sorry for the misunderstanding.  I did not mean that we needed to
prove the existence of others in order to live life.  I just meant that if we
*did* want to prove it (for some bizarre reason), we would have to use
behavioral criteria.  One could raise the point, favorite amongst psychodynamic
psychologists, that as infants we had to go through a stage of proving this to
ourselves, but it's hard to say how this, in itself, could be proved.
-- 
"The map may not be the territory, but it's all we've got."

Sarge Gerbode
Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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