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From: gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: The nature of reality.
Message-ID: <3639@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 23:06:07 GMT
References: <2868@gryphon.CTS.COM> <343@thirdi.UUCP> <732@actnyc.UUCP> <356@thirdi.UUCP> <3503@dasys1.UUCP> <369@thirdi.UUCP> <4268@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch)
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Keywords: reality credibility validity

In article <4268@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
}In article <369@thirdi.UUCP> sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
} >....
} >And we all got on the elephant that we had agreed on and rode off into the
} >sunset.
} 
} I don't think so.  That ``ironing out the differences'' stuff is
} going to be difficult.  Methink that the elephant will die of old age.
} Will that be an objectively dead elephant?  or only a subjectively
} dead one?

Ah, the elephant.  A good point, Laura.  What will the _elephant_ think
of this crew?  Possibly it will roll them up like a scroll, along with
their funny little universe, and amble away -- wherever away is.

In other words -- how do you know your map isn't mapping you right
back?  As the Invisible Man said, "It's one thing to be an idea in
the mind of God, and another to be an idea in the mind of the chair
you're sitting on!"

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