> And one can follow up that real question with the
> historical question of explaining why Descartes,
> Berkeley & their followers should have dug those holes
> to begin with. That, I think, is a both a more
> interesting and important question _and_ one which,
> while not easy to answer, is in principle answerable,
> in that increased awareness of human activity (past,
> present, and future) emerges from even the attempt or
> from partial answers.
Somewhere out there there is a book about how the pious bishop Berkeley was involved in the greatest scam of all times: paper money!
_Esse_est_percipi_.
cheers AN