Nope. What makes it true that getting hit with a rock sucks is the fact that getting hit with a rock demonstrably does suck. You can do the science. The actual "observation" here is that, well, getting hit with a rock really does suck.
Not in all cases (we can all
imagine scenarios in which getting hit by a rock doesn't suck- it leads to something good).
But yes, I was simply being lazy when I said what I said, and it ballooned into the straw man you and Keith are attacking because sometimes I attempt to defend sloppy statements I make, because I love a challenge. However, it's distracting from the point I was trying to make.
If 10000000 people believe something, it is real, because of the effect their belief has upon reality. Our imaginations are real- you cannot deny their existence (nor will you).
The other thing I mentioned was that we need to believe in the existence of imaginary entities, such as the tooth fairy, to delineate between real entities, such as a rock, and imaginary entities. We have to believe that imaginary entities exist to understand that certain things we think about are imaginary.
If we say no imaginary entities exist, then every entity we imagine is real. That's not even remotely sane.
