WC wrote: "I think I disagree with Cheerskep's insistence that one person's pre-existing notion must be matched by another person's very, very similar notion before there can be communication. I prefer to think that we are always shaping and reshaping our "notions" in self-conversation, as it were, and in communicating with others we inspire them to create similar notions, even those that they did not have previously."
Yes, see sensing as non-epistemic, perceiving as epistemic, and indirect realism. I am not sure the notion of "progress" used by cheerskep is valid in philosophy - maybe in science. Best Luc
