A Shared
Perception
 For example, billions of people
travel each day, and most observe traffic laws and courtesies which protect life. At every
intersection there is a sharing of reality, even in argumentative societies. Most of the
time people agree who should proceed and who should wait for the light to change. Shared
perceptions enable people to have standards in cooking, communication, chemistry,
medicine, construction, law, and even rock-and-roll. So, relativists maintain the world is
real, on its own, independent of human thoughts and feelings, even though each person's
mind may register inputs from the world entirely differently.A consideration of
different views of reality is a fascinating pursuit on its own. However, the shocked and
overturned doubter wants his pain to stop; he doesn't want to explore philosophies and
physics.
As doubt spreads, nothing seems to...
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