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Article #696Re: Hypotheses (was: Re: Assumptions vs.
From: Frank Adams
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:49
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:49
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I wrote: >> What person thinks he saw can easily be slightly different from what he >> actually saw. In article <10292319.81767.18770@kcbbs.gen.nz> Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas) writes: >and how would you know that ? Because there have been times when *I* thought I saw something, and later evidence (looking at it more closely, for example) led me to conclude that I had been mistaken. >I think you are in a loop. I think you are raising a philosophical point irrelevant to the discussion at hand. If you want to define perception in such a way that it is not possible to mistaken about a perception, go right ahead; but that is not the sense of the word I had in mind.
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Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!secapl!Cookie!frank From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams) Subject: Re: Hypotheses (was: Re: Assumptions vs. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.004932.65854@Cookie.secapl.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:49:32 GMT References: <10292319.81767.18770@kcbbs.gen.nz> Organization: Security APL, Inc. Lines: 17