ABSTRACT
The first motive of the I-Thou relationship is personal intercourse. The common phrase 'we know one another much better than we did' is literally true. But the I-Thou relationship might be well described as an attitude of person to person, and as whatever happens when this attitude is cultivated and educated. Part of 'whatever happens' is knowledge but other parts of it concern the feelings and the will. Solipsism is an intellectual theory born of extreme philosophical scepticism: no one in his ordinary practical common-sense day-today existence ever believes or acts as a solipsist. A sympathetic and imaginative man, for example, may go a long way in understanding the feelings of an expectant mother: but there are obvious limits. Professor Price in an article written a good Philosophy many years ago, 'Our Evidence for the existence of other minds', described the alternative to an inferential view as the intuitive theory.
