Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA23728 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:02:33 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:56:31 -0400 Subject: Re: Thoughts and Perceptions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F403JURVG8NNdi00003e51@hotmail.com> Message-Id: <D9D2D59D-52E4-11D6-A1A2-003065B9A95A@harvard.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 11:08 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
> What actually happened was fact at every stage of the experiment. The
> concept just guided the experiment.
You betcha.
> What the word "fact" means is the same as with any other word: it
> depends on what it is being used to mean.
"Yes, that is what the _word_ for fact does," said the White Knight.
- Wade
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