David, On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:04 AM, David Harding <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [Marsha] >> Oh you've switched from using "pretend" to "making an assumption"; isn't >> language fun? I already addressed this in my previous post: "There might >> be good reasons in science to pretend [make an assumption]? Isn't that what >> David Morey is going on about?" > > [djh] > I don't know I haven't been reading David Morey. But I'm not saying there is > only 'good reasons' in science to make assumptions. I'm saying that there > are good reasons (and we actually do this all the time) to make assumptions > that things exist before we experience them in our daily lives. Marsha: Provisionally this seems often to be the assumption. > [djh] > For instance how could we even think about things without assuming that one > or two things occurred before we thought about it? Marsha: If assumptions were turtle, it's turtles all the way down. Marsha Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
