> people "hallucinate" Yes, but let us be clear about the critical point: humans do have a faculty - whether they use it or not - to check their thought for fo

> people "hallucinate" Yes, but let us be clear about the critical point: humans do have a faculty - whether they use it or not - to check their thought for foundations, for validity. And this faculty is the condition for a legitimacy to make statements. People may conjure unfounded ideas, immature constructs (this is studied since millennia): but well developed intellects then process those ideas, test them, refine them. Given that it is relatively easy to be fooled, or dramatically easy (especially since mistakes can have a unbelievably staggering cost), and we are supposed to know that - after psychology, criminology etc., or just simply after the facts that we are more experienced than infants -, the problem of discrimination and reflection remain central and critical. And (just in case): there is absolutely no need to emulate fools: the goal is the opposite.