Values and perception
If I like tomatoes and you do not, it is idle
to discuss whether that is because we both experience the same
physical tastes but value them differently, or because we have a
common standard of valuation but experience different values. The
alternatives are only verbally different, because there is no
conceivable means of deciding between them. In just the same way, it
is idle to discuss whether God is in the room and only one man is
conscious of his prescence, or whether God is not in the room but one
man is deluded into thinking that he is. Only the individual can
answer that question in an intelligible way, and therefore no
criterion of existence which can be generally accepted is
possible.