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To: lds23
There is always the danger of a sort of solipsism in regarding only those things which we can perceive, or are compatible, or allowable to our structures.

I hear you (I think), lds23. But then these solipsistic "filters" can filter out Reality only so long.... At the end of the day, the tail does not wag the dog.

43 posted on 12/08/2002 4:09:40 PM PST by betty boop
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To: betty boop
But then these solipsistic "filters" can filter out Reality only so long....

As Magritte's Treachery of Images points out ("This is not a pipe"), we can be severely limited in our understanding of reality, mostly by our assumption set, but even among the best of us by the very limits of experiential "physics", if you will.

Reality, even when spelled with a capital "R", is merely an attempt to nail jello to the wall.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

45 posted on 12/08/2002 4:28:24 PM PST by lds23
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