Re: Why the oceans are salty?

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From: Steve
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:51

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Professor Vonroach wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:29:34 -0400, "$teve (vrml3d.com)"
> <comments@vrml3d.com> wrote:
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> >
> >Steve <bozone@ripco.com> wrote in message
> >news:3BB8C8DA.9D9A3F57@ripco.com...
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> >>
> >> Professor Vonroach wrote:
> >[snip]
> >>
> >> -ahem-
> >>
> >> After extensive contempation in the spirit of the father of the field of
> >> semantics, Alfred Korzybski, I have decided upon amending the previous
> >> statement to read, "subjectively salty."
> Unfortunately that can only be an individual qualitative statement,
> from what one person might identify as minimally salty to what almost
> all would call salty.

Unfortunately, the only access to Erring Intellect is off of Erring
Senses Road, whether you're counting molecules or just drinking the damn water.

Ought it not be possible, with a large enough statistical sample, to
generate a relevant graph of reported human perception as it relates to
the detection of salt in water?  After all, that's all you're doing
*now*, only the sample is limited largely to chemists, and the
perception is altered by various instruments and methods that have
proven themselves to be (subjectively) useful.

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From: Steve <bozone@ripco.com>
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Subject: Re: Why the oceans are salty?
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