Well, I just think so is their final say. We can all be very certain that gravity doesn t apply to us. We can talk it over and draw that conclusion. That vote won t make us suddenly weightless. And one step off a cliff will certainly confirm the folly of our decree, even if we ve been unanimous.
Gravity exists apart from our opinion on it.
Belief that fashion alone should dominate opinion has great advantages. It makes thought unnecessary and puts the highest intelligence within the range of everyone. Truth can no more be decreed by opinion than art determined by mathematics. What I may think about something has no bearing on its truthfulness, its reality. My thinking doesn t create the truthfulness of something.