[Virginia-American]

A *real* skeptic would say everything we know about ourselves and the universe is but a figment of the imagination. Can you disprove that claim?

The illustrious Dr. Samuel Johnson was walking with a mystic-minded cleric who said much the same thing. Johnson kicked a rock and said he had disproven the cleric's speculation by a "reductio ad lapidum"

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . said he had disproven the cleric's speculation by a "reductio ad lapidum".

Yeah. That's one of the reasons I reject Scientology.