[lit-ideas] Re: The Meaning of Life: Isn't there a wikipedia article on that?
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:22:32 -0500
It is time. Each of these statements must be labeled with either A:
Observation, B: Inference, or C: Opinion.
1. The plant is not important to the students in this classroom.
2. Carol looked tired.
3. I bet it takes you a long time to get to your classes.
4. I was on roller blades when I fell and broke my leg.
5. I really like the way the flowers smell. (This is, in my most humble
opinion different from a sentence stating "the flowers smell good".)
6. Frogs croak to talk to each other in a pond.
7. The girl looked sad as she walked home from school.
8. I have a headache. The odor gave me a headache.
9. The music hurt my ears.
10. The umpire looked mad.
Would you pass? Are you smarter than an eighth grader?
Julie Krueger
eagerly awaiting results
On 10/10/07, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> --- Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > --- Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > (Still going to send the list my daughter's recent science test on
> > opinion
> > > vs. observation vs. inference and see how many of you answer the 10
> > > questions "correctly".)
> >
> > Bring it on
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> > Donal
> > DeptOfPopper
> > ObsessiveCompulsive&TrivialCollege
> > UniversityOfAnywhere
> > O shit
> > Yeh,there is no hard and fast distinction between these
> > So,on second thoughts,don't bother
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> I was being playful.
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> What is perhaps true is that the distinctions between
> opinion/observation/inference are highly problemmatic within a trad. arr.
> empiricism {a la Berk., Hume, Locke} - perhaps much more so than outside
> these schools of thought.
> [Bearing in mind that in these schools our opinions and even inference
> must
> be derived, at the end of the day, from some form of 'observation' i.e.
> from
> a form of sense experience].
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> Donal
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