How Are We To Adjudicate Among Rival

Our Talk Of External Things, Our Very Notion Of Things, Is Just A Conceptual Apparatus That Helps Us To Foresee And Control The Triggerings Of Our Sensory Receptors In The Light Of Previous Triggering Of Our Sensory Receptors.

Unlike Descartes, We Own And Use Our Beliefs Of The Moment, Even In The Midst Of Philosophizing, Until By What Is Vaguely Called Scientific Method We Change Them Here And There For The Better. Within Our Own Total Evolving Doctrine, We Can Judge Truth As Earnestly And Absolutely As Can Be, Subject To Correction, But That Goes Without Saying.

Nonbeing Must In Some Sense Be, Otherwise What Is It That There Is Not? This Tangled Doctrine Might Be Nicknamed Plato's Beard; Historically It Has Proved Tough, Frequently Dulling The Edge Of Occam's Razor.

Students Of The Heavens Are Separable Into Astronomers And Astrologers As Readily As The Minor Domestic Ruminants Into Sheep And Goats, But The Separation Of Philosophers Into Sages And Cranks Seems To Be More Sensitive To Frames Of Reference.

Meaning Is What Essence Becomes When It Is Divorced From The Object Of Reference And Wedded To The Word.