Unlike the first volume of John O'Loughlin's collected dialogues, viz. LOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS, this second and final volume is more philosophically, not to say ideologically, homogeneous, using material from the early 'eighties when the author was beginning to find his ideological feet and to develop a sparser approach to the dialogue genre which enabled him to hone his thoughts to the subjects with which, in more general terms, he was becoming increasingly interested. Ideally, this volume should be read in conjunction with the second volume of essays, 'A Truthful Approach to Knowledge', with which it is thematically and stylistically more in sympathy.