“The point is not the few, but that they are.”

“The few just men, who save the city.”

“Exactly.”

“But even existence is not quite certain.”

“What is this?”

“Descartes said, my existence is certain; that is a fallacy.”

“If this is a fallacy for metaphysic, so much the worse for metaphysic.”

“That is argumentum ad hominem.”

“I am not afraid of it.”

“But what can you put in place of metaphysic?”