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To: little jeremiah; betty boop
If human experience is not reliable, then its value is very limited

Yes it is. That's why we don't go by hearsay, but look for as much objective evidence as possible. Subjectivity is simply not very reliable. Two people can watch one and the same movie in the same circumstances and one may find it true and wonderful and the other false and horrible.

138 posted on 03/24/2010 10:30:36 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50; little jeremiah; Alamo-Girl; metmom; allmendream; xzins; Quix; shibumi; stfassisi; ...
Two people can watch one and the same movie in the same circumstances and one may find it true and wonderful and the other false and horrible.

This is actually possible, I grant you, dear kosta. But how often, really, does such a situation actually occur?

Most human beings can identify with the experience of other human beings. All are existentially in the "same boat," so to speak.

Which is to say there is a commonality in human experience such that people in movie theaters tend to identify the same things in the film projected to them. Indeed, if they didn't, that is if this were not a reliable expectation, then producers, directors, and actors wouldn't know what to do next.

140 posted on 03/24/2010 10:44:13 PM PDT by betty boop (Moral law is not rooted in factual laws of nature; they only tell us what happens, not what ought to)
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