The importance that arguments is given, I do find bewildering. Think of the law, think of history, think of pretty much everything that sails under the label humanities. It's all about arguments. Differently put: Much of our reality is man-made, it only exists because we believe in it.
This, however, is not the reality that was once so aptly described by Philip K. Dick as "that which when you stop believing in it doesn't go away." Sharon Cameron once put it thus: "Without reference points there is meaninglessness. But I wish you'd understand that without reference points you are in the real."
We human beings are far from facing reality, we prefer illusions that we like to call beliefs. As the Bhagavad Gita says: "Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."
