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- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Path: 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.
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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.
-