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Re: Hypotheses (was: Re: Assumptions vs.

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From: Hakki Kocabas
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:02
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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 (H
> >and how would you know that ?    
>   
> Because there have been times when *I* thought I saw something, and later  
  
yes, you thought you _saw_....but you didn't see it clearly...  
  
> evidence (looking at it more closely, for example) led me to conclude that I
> had been mistaken.  
  
then you saw it better...  
  
>   
> >I think you are in a loop.  
>   
> I think you are raising a philosophical point irrelevant to the discussion  
  
how do you know ?  
  
> 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
  
we are not talking about "perception", we are talking about the use of  
the word "see"....  
  
> sense of the word I had in mind.  
  
and I am not interested what is the sense of this word in your mind, unless  
you can put it on the sceen :-)  
  
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From: Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas)
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:02:00 GMT
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