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Article #759Re: Hypotheses (was: Re: Assumptions vs.
From: Hakki Kocabas
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:02
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!kcbbs!kc Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: Hypotheses (was: Re: Assumptions vs. Message-ID: <10292322.79320.9942@kcbbs.gen.nz> From: Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas) Date: 18 Nov 92 22:02:00 GMT Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand Lines: 34