>>> Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> 12/06/99 04:40PM >>>
My sweetie's students at fourth-tier Adelphi U are complete relativists. right you are if you think you are. Everything is just opinion. So, if we all agree that Susie isn't really here in this room, she's not really here? That's right. And if some of us think she's here and others don't, then she's here for some and not for others? That's right. They don't really believe this, I suspect,since they're not crazy, but that's what they say.
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Charles: We used to call ourselves "Humean beings" when we did this. Then there was the rumor that Bishop Berkeley was constipated and angry at matter when he came up with his subjective idealism.
CB