From: Robert Peter Burns <rburns-AT-scf.usc.edu>
Subject: "Chegitz's Law"
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:27:02 -0800 (PST)


"For any X, if one can show how human conceptions 
of X arose and changed radically over time, then X 
is not real".

Astute employment of this law can threaten the reality 
of just about anything from matter to, er, Chegitz Luzietti
--you name it!  Idealist philosophers from Berkeley to the 
20th century sense-data phenomenalists to contemporary 
poststucturalists have in fact used a slightly more sophisticated 
version of Chegitz's Law to deny the objective reality of matter.

Drunk though wise Scotsman, he say: "Shome Mishtake Shurely?"
In vino veritas!  Especially when drunk along with some good
acqua vitae!


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