Bob Shell wrote: >That being said, I do not believe there is anything under the veil >that we perceive as reality except a nebulous cloud of >probabilities. There are no certainties.
I agree that there aren't any certainties! >I know that point of view is anathema to modern materialism, Hmm, I'm not sure how materialists would regard the existence of certainties. But then, I'm not much concerned by what they think ;-) I just prefer realism (in a philosophical sense) to its opposite, relativism. >but it has always struck me as the truth. I was astonished in my late teens >when I realized that other people really didn't see things this way. I well remember some of my various realizations that other people see things in some fundamentally different ways. But true flamebait lurks in that territory so I won't go there!
