Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA23906 (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 18:10:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:04:46 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Thoughts and Perceptions To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3CBEFCAE.A20E2062@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Yahoo;YIP052400} (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en,ja References: <28F2B5CD-52D7-11D6-A1A2-003065B9A95A@harvard.edu> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Wade,
> > That fact would not have occurred
> > without the idea.
>
> No. The fact was there all along. The fact that no-one achieved escape
> velocity might have been dependent upon some idea of escape velocity
That is the fact that I was referring to.
But, anyway, in another post we have agreed that there are factual
concepts. And the dictionary entry you quoted says that we can call them
facts, by meaning #5.
Let's disagree about something we really disagree about. ;-)
Best,
Bill
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