Has anyone seen my neutral pointer?

[bennyboy]

To me, a "neutral pointer" means you are referring to something, whatever it "really" happens to be.  In other words, you don't make assumptions about the framework behind it.

And yet no neutral pointer is used in reference to the manner in which we distinguish "stuff" from "ideas", or the "material" from the "something else".  In that we are said to be dead wrong, as seen from his high horse.

Eh?

I think you'll find the OP a lot more neutral than I am.  I'm just saying what I think the OP is talking about.