On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:58:52 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Richard Clark wrote:
There is a vast gulf between seeming and proving.

Richard, you seem to exist. Please prove that you
indeed do exist.

Gad, with built-in failures of logic like this question, it is SO, SO
easy, I can do it in stereo:

First, I can pinch myself: corporeal reality! However, you are just
amusing words on a screen that I can erase at will, hence you are a
figment of the imagination - the essential seeminess.

Second (this is the same mystery investigated as the Chinese Room
Argument), your messages only appear to be intelligent. Subsequent
correspondence reveals that to be a fiction.

What a pair of slam dunks for the home team.

Want to go for the trifecta?

Both the first and second tests can be independently corroborated by a
multitude of other posters here!

Dubito Tu Es