[Wittrs] Re: Following a rule
- From: "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:51:19 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jrstern" <jrstern@...> wrote:
> Oh, sure, any good behaviorist or positivist or Quinian or
> probably even a Kripkean, any classical empiricist, is going
> to say we get all of our data from the world via physical signals,
> in particular via sense impressions, so everything has to come
> via observation sentences, yada yada.
I've never been able to work out what "sense impressions" are supposed
to be.
If reading the time on a clock means accessing a physical signal, then
fine. But that physical signal would not be there without the clock.
And the clock itself is an invention. As far as I can tell, without
that invention there would be no physical signal that provides the same
information.
To me, it makes no sense to talk about discovering patterns in physical
signals that come from inventions, unless we also talk about the
inventing that makes it possible.
My view of learning, is that we are inventing more and better ways of
getting information. And, roughly speaking, science works mainly
because it has make available so much information that had not
previously been available. This is roughly consistent with the
perceptual learning studied by E. Gibson.
Regards,
Neil
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