Re: OT: reality (wasRe: Atlantean)

Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:

> Something only counts as objective if it is
> potentially provable to any observer.  Anything which
> can only be exprienced by one person, like my pain,
> and my 12 foot dragon, remains forever subjective,
> which means, of course, not objective.  That is not to
> say it is not real, only that if it is real, then it
> is both real and non-objective.
Ah. Now were getting somewhere - what I mean with 'objective reality' is more
like what you mean with plain 'reality', or so it would seem.

Now, a case could be made that while no-one else may be able to _experience_
your pain, it is certain detectable to others, via measurements of the
electric activity of your brain, f'rinstance, which ought to make
it 'objective' by your definition too, or so it seems to me. But that's a
minor point.

                                                  Andreas