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Article #774Re: Hypotheses (was: Re: Assumptions vs.
From: Frank Adams
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:40
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:40
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In article <10292322.79320.9942@kcbbs.gen.nz> Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas) writes: >> 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 :-) If you have a point which is relevant to the discussion, please make it. All I can get from this is that you don't like my word choices. If, on the other hand, this whole line of commentary was a joke, it wasn't funny.
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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: <1992Nov21.204031.117709@Cookie.secapl.com> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:40:31 GMT References: <10292322.79320.9942@kcbbs.gen.nz> Organization: Security APL, Inc. Lines: 38