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- From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
- Subject: Re: Direction of the sun
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.193642.8600@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- References: <1992Dec24.012636.17115@Csli.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec29.164022.2651@informix.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:36:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.164022.2651@informix.com> robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec24.012636.17115@Csli.Stanford.EDU> hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU
- >(Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:
- >> Two boys, A and B, are watching the sunset.
- >> [...]
- >This seems to be a question about reality versus observable reality -
- >a question which can be asked about any distant object.
- >
- >Mr. Hiraga's question "simply" highlights the uneasiness of relying
- >on observation while realizing that observation is simultaneously
- >referential. This goes on all the time. Tree falling in the woods but
- >nobody hears it, Ronnie is really being manipulated by Nancy, etc.
- >
- >> (Make it understandable to a ten year-old.)
- >Lots of luck!
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- You'd have better luck if you ignored the philosophical complications
- and figured out the answer to the question that was intended--which
- one suspects you haven't tried yet.
-
- -- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
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