Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic,sci.philosophy.tech,sci.psychology,sci.psychology.theory,sci.cognitive
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!agate!library.ucla.edu!info.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!jqb
From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: On Going Beyond The Information Given & 'Cognition'
Message-ID: <jqbDCwMsG.For@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <807627449snz@longley.demon.co.uk> <807664689snz@longley.demon.co.uk> <402fck$i7f@sun4.bham.ac.uk> <807718447snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 19:43:28 GMT
Lines: 29
Sender: jqb@netcom22.netcom.com
Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:32237 comp.ai.philosophy:31335 sci.logic:13633 sci.philosophy.tech:19225 sci.psychology:45402 sci.psychology.theory:224 sci.cognitive:8880

In article <807718447snz@longley.demon.co.uk>,
David Longley  <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <402fck$i7f@sun4.bham.ac.uk> axs@cs.bham.ac.uk "Aaron Sloman" writes:
>
><snip>
>
>> This is a pretty poor argument. Are you aware of the difference in
>> meaning between "often", "always", "most of the time" ? The fact
>> that electricity meters often go wrong does not entail that they are
>> always wrong, mostly wrong, or that there's nothing for them to
>> measure, rightly or wrongly.
>> 
>> Similarly, the fact that reports of utterances are OFTEN wrong does
>> not entail that they are ALWAYS wrong, or MOSTLY wrong, or that it
>> makes NO SENSE for them ever to be right.
>> 
><snip>
>
>All you need to do is look at the exchanges here on the net. As o the rest 
>of what you are doing here - it's errm pedantic and obfuscatory.  

Yes, looking at the exchanges here on the net does seem quite clearly to
support Aaron's statement, although you do your bit to push "often wrong"
toward "mostly wrong".  Your "pedantic and obfuscatory" is certainly
self-fulfilling as a misrepresentation.

-- 
<J Q B>

