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Get your kicks on Route 55

Thursday, March 3, 2005 at 08:18PM

I sometimes catch the tram to get to or from the office, and usually it’s a not unpleasant experience.

This evening was not one of the usual reasonably relaxing fifteen minute trips down Flemington Road and through Royal Park. It’s remarkable how a violent scuffle between passengers can change the feeling throughout the tram. There was pushing, shoving, curses and epithets, clutching at throats, and a tense standoff from the protagonists. Shocked stares, shy glances away, pleas of “calm down!”, “watch out!”, and “cool it!” from the onlookers. After the protagonists got off there were relieved sighs, a few tears, and a tram full of not-quite-returning-to-nomal people.

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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.

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Thought

I have no reason for believing the existence of matter. I have no immediate intuition thereof: neither can I immediately, from any sensations, ideas, notions, actions or passions infer an unthinking, unperceiving, inactive substance–either by probable deduction or necessary consequence.
— George Berkeley Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.