On 5 January 2018 at 22:52, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > On 1/5/2018 2:17 PM, David Nyman wrote: > > To take a more realistic example. >> > > I do so love your appropriation of the terms 'real' and 'realistic' to > your own theories. > > > I think a Mars Rover reporting its battery is low is more realistic than > it seeing an apple in the most common sense of "realistic". > A Mars Rover reporting that its battery is low is roughly analogous to your judgement that I might look like I could do with a good meal. 'Reporting' in this sense is the more or less straightforward 'reading' by you of some state, in this case of charge. It has no semantic content independent of that fact, any more than my 'looking hungry'. David > > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
