Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:10:44 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu> Subject: Re: BHA: Structures are not things that are true or false,even if Mervyn Hartwig wrote: > > Hi Günter (and Tobin et al.), > > A mirage really does have the appearance of water quite independently of > the cognitive mistake of the particular observer--i.e. in our world-line > would have that appearance, given the laws of optics etc, to any > observer of the relevant kind. Even when you know that it's 'only a > mirage' it persists, so the effect is not reducible to your mistake. The sun really does have the appearance of being the size of a dinner plate, even to someone who knows that it is a huge fusion process; it is not reducible to one's "mistake," but that does not mean that it is a "false" appearance. (Playing with the word "true," All appearances are true appearances. It is a tautology but apparently a needed one to affirm that an appearance of x is an appearance of x.) Carrol --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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