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From: rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley)
Subject: Re: Roger Penrose's New Book (in HTML) 1.0
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In article <38ckm6$bit@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, Jack Sarfatti (js) writes:

js> I do not consider linguistics to be "experimental" in the same sense
js> that physics is. Linguistics is a high level phenomenology on the function
js> of a complex system. 

And the measurements carried out on bloody great accelerators at CERN
_aren't_ high level phenomena?

	``We have n million tons of machinery and when we hit this
	  button, there's a 3 second pause, then this needle twitches''.

People are only capable of observing the high level phenomena, the
trick is to observe enough of the right high level phenomena to work
out what may be happening at lower levels.

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rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk			_O_
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