Re: Negation?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 8, 1999, 5:14 |
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Ed Heil wrote:
> But I'm not sure how you could know *nothing but* the fact that it *did
> not rain* by any means other than being told so in words.
Well, perhaps that was a bad example, but one way would be as you said,
by observing that the ground is dry, or perhaps you had left a
wheelbarrow out, and, if it had rained, there would be water in the
wheelbarrow, or perhaps you saw that the precipitation the previous day
was 0.00 inches.
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