Reply #110: All your evidence shows is that they are in the mind [View All]

and not representative of something existing in the world of physical objects.

But that does not show that they all are solely created by the mind and are non-veridical. That inference is simply invalid.

Let's say that only 0.0003% of the human population is capable of having and understanding a specific and very difficult mathematical thought, and that everybody else, when they try to, make mistakes or simply get confused. Does this prove that the thought in question is not valid or true or veridical?

There's a good story told in one of his books by Roger Penrose, the famous Cambridge mathematician, about how he once 'saw' a 4-dimensional geometrical object. As far as we know, he's the only person to have had this kind of experience. Does this mean it's more reasonable to suppose that Penrose had some brain malfunction than that he's an extraordinarily gifted mathematician?