[bearly]

hi sweet, i'm always looking to get to the 'particular go of it', not, "hume said, locke said, hume replied..........." i think it is safe to say that we have a pretty good presumption that the desk did not move and is in the exact place it was when we left. why take on all the extra baggage of asserting that the unobserved events were as we say they were? nothing is gained by it. i must admit: i stay w/ the premise that philosophy is an activity, not a study of history or an accumulation of information. the latter is the "union card" that the under-graduate has to earn (like pre-med). beyond that, the search should be for what is right and what is wrong, i realize that all(virtually) of these historical questions will end up by working philosophers in something like the "philosophy of mind". but, that is the modern metaphysics, and there is no turning back (that i can see)...........b