[MD] Independent reality?

[Craig Erb]

[dmb]
Agreed.  We understand reality thru our concepts & our concepts are 
thoroughly human-made.  But what about the reality we will not understand 
until the future?  Does it exist now, even though we don't have the concepts for it?
Take the black plague: We now ascribe it to a germ carried by fleas carried by rats.
They didn't have the concept of 'germ' back then, but they did have the germ,
so the germ cannot be a concept. 

Craig 



> [Pirsig's] saying that reality as we understand it, every last bit of it,
> is a man-made pile of analogies. Reality as we know it, earth, sky, science,
> philosophy, every last bit of it, is a set of humanly constructed concepts.