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Well.. you usually don't. But often you can know. I'm rushed right now. Back to you later. You raise some good issues.

Get back to you later. Gotta go out for a while.

Why do you assume that anybody has to decide what exists or doesn't exist in order for that which exists to exist? The universe is brimming over with things that exist without our being aware of them. These things don't wait to have their existence bestowed upon them by us. There are...

When you conjure up a mental visual image do you not see it with the 'mind's eye'? You don't hear it or touch it; you see it. Is this not a kind of seeing? "A bee, by all human standards, does not have a mind." How are you using the phrase "by all human standards" here? Perhaps...

Whatever. A thing need not be substantive to be real. Thoughts, perceptions, feelings, ideas - all real. Anything that exists is real. Anything that does not exist is unreal. You are arbitrarily defining "real hunger" as only that which can be physically manifested. You...

Both statements, "I see a unicorn." and "I am hallucinating." are true. You are arbitrarily restricting "seeing" to receiving images through the eye. Without the mind there is no seeing. In fact, seeing can be a purely mental phenomenon. Seeing is having a visual image in the mind...

Insubstantial makebelieve is real as insubstantial makebelieve; that is, as a mental experience. All that's required for a thing to be 'real' is that it exists. A nine-million ton chicken doesn't exist and is therefore not real, but the concept of a nine-million ton chicken is real in...

Let's say that you're hallucinating and your hallucination causes you to see a unicorn (that isn't really there). If you were to say "Over there is a unicorn." you'd be speaking an untruth because there is no correspondence between your statement and the facts. If, however, you said "I see...

Swedes I've met complain that they're restricted from expressing their capabilities to the max in the socialist context, but compare this complaint to those arising out of the savagery of the American economic system. Health care is a biggie. God help the aged and infirm in America if...

Main Street owns Wall Street, or a good part of it. Can't separate the two any more. Wall Street falls into a sinkhole, a trillion in pensions go with it. Fed can't let the market collapse because the Gov't can't have 40 million old-timers storming the welfare office.

Maybe, maybe not. Did the wealth go to someone who stole it? Did a little bit of some billionaire's wealth go to a starving single mom?

Morally irrelevant if 99% is going to one individual.

Yes, it's unjust. It would probably be disastrous for humanity. Determining a limit would be tricky but doable. Who, for instance, needs a billion dollars?

In each case it's a limit chosen by the (excessively) wealthy individual. Such a limit is a pseudo-limit since it's optional and may change with the individual's mood. Literally, however, a flexible or optional limit is still a limit of a sort. I thought you were looking for some sort of...

Greetings, Earthling... (or am I assuming?) Hunger is a subjective experience. It is sometimes occasioned by such physical events as low blood sugar or excitement of the hypothalamus but however it's generated it remains a subjective event that exists in the mind as an entity independent...

I"m just challenging traderNik's definitive restriction of truth to truth that's arrived at or supported by logic or material observations. The bulk of truths we encounter are subjective and can't be supported by logic or material evidence. For instance: You feel cold; you say "I feel...

In your opening statement "You cannot tell the difference whether you're really hungry...." acknowledges the truth that there is such a state as being really hungry. You know that this is so from your own subjective experience and don't arrive at this knowledge by way of either logic or...

Too late to change horses.

I remember some pundit or other appearing on NBR predicting $800.00 gold because everybody who issues a currency would be "racing to the bottom" to remain competitive; his timing was about 15 years off but his scenario looks credible now (with inflation: $1500.00 gold). Rising commodities...