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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: <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.
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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.
-