Dear Mara, lists - Certainly it is through an index that WE know about the cause of the crater. But the physical process itself, the meteor creating the crater, is not an index. The index relies upon causal, purposive and other actual connections which are not, in themselves, signs (or only trivially so). Best F
Den 15/09/2014 kl. 19.09 skrev Mara Woods <mara.wo...@gmail.com<mailto:mara.wo...@gmail.com>> : Perhaps saying that it is an index does add one thing. It says that instead of knowing that the crater was caused by a meteor through direct perception of the event, we know it because we inferred it based on what was left behind. Mara Woods
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