s.&nbsp; My response is to avoid
attempting a resolution of basic philosophical issues by asking for agreement
where possible; when agreement is not possible, compromise on the implementation
of these issues in a way that doesn't do violence to deeply held beliefs.&nbsp;
One is asking for agreement on the design of a computational artifact -
not realism vs nominalism, etc.&nbsp; Newtonian vs relativistic physics
might be useful as an analogy.&nbsp; Although one may know that the universe
operates differentl