You and I can take a look at a table and agree it is a table. It is made out of wood, it is brown. We agree to that. Of course, you understand that when I say “brown” and you hear “brown,” brown actually to you may be purple but you have agreed that it is brown because all your life people have been pointing to this color vibration and saying “brown.” It might really be red to me, but I recognize it as brown. So we are in agreement although we might be seeing something different. But we agree this is brown, this is wood, this is a table. Now a fellow walks in the door, comes up and takes a look at this thing and says, “Huh! An elephant!”
You say, “It’s a table, see? Elephants are . . .”
“No, it’s an elephant.”
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