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- 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
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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
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- 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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