[MD] Seriously, Dan

[Krimel]

> [Krimel] 
> "Reality as I understand it" is a set of concepts I have acquired over the
> course of a lifetime of "being in the world". 

[Craig]. 
So is English "as you understand it, a set of concepts you have acquired
over the course of a lifetime"?  Or is it words, sentences, grammer, etc.? 

[Krimel]
Well words sentence and grammar are also concepts acquired over a lifetime. 

[Dan] 
> The warmth I feel on my skin isn't really warmth on my skin. I know
> intellectually that it's a mental representation of warmth on my skin
> that I'm feeling. 

[Craig]
Have you ever fallen asleep outside in the sun & woke up with a sunburn? 
Does this make you think there is something going on besides your
experiences? 
Do you wonder why you don't get a sunburn every night while you sleep in
your bed? I think you are both making things more difficult than they are. 

[Krimel]
I do think we are making it more complicated than it is. To simplify, I
guess I would have to say that, I am suspicious of phenomenology as an
approach to ontology.