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Re: Visual comprehension and reading

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From: Kalman Rubinson
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:14
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On 8 Mar 2007 14:54:48 -0800, "Nicci" <n.m.keele@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>I don't agree that your red ball is an hallucination....
>no more than I would agree that Beethoven, or Dickens or
>any sculptor, musician or artist has 'hallucinated', I
>think we call that having something called 'imagination' Kal.

Operationally equivalent even though you clearly regard the term
'hallucination' as pejorative.  The major difference is what the
individual does as a consequence of the experience and, of course, the
general value of the outcome.  

Kal
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From: Kalman Rubinson <kr4@nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Visual comprehension and reading
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:14:31 -0500
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