Date:  Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:11:36 -0500 (EST)
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From: Geoffrey Hacker <ghacker@ONE.NET.AU>
Subject:      Re: What the *%$@ does "nu" mean?
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> > or that we have examined the genetic material of the cell nucleus
> > and determined it to be duck chromosomes, or whatever otyher things
> > we might need to determine to tell whether it might or might n ot be
> > a duck egg.
>
> Maybe you are thinking of observation as not just the gathering
> of sensible (sensable) data but also as involving inferences
> drawn from that data?
>

In philosophy of science, at least, it is commonly recognised that
observation differs from bare perception in that observation is
theory-laden; that is, it can involve inferences drawn from the sets of
sense-data that one gathers through perception.

Geoff