--- Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > --- Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > (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 > > Donal > DeptOfPopper > ObsessiveCompulsive&TrivialCollege > UniversityOfAnywhere > O shit > Yeh,there is no hard and fast distinction between these > So,on second thoughts,don't bother I was being playful. 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]. Donal ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html