Dear Ken,
Thanks for your comments. I think you make a good point. However, it seems to me one could as well argue that the naive realists take a partial truth (that the ability to communicate depends in part upon a shared or common interpretation of events) and generalize it into an absurdity -- i.e. what is self evidently the "real" meaning of events for oneself is also self evidently the meaning of events for everyone.
Such egocentrism reminds me of the joke that professor Bloom appears to have mistaken his own bowel sounds for the rumblings of the universe.
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