Re: What the *%$@ does "nu" mean?

[Geoffrey Hacker <ghacker@ONE.NET.AU>]

> > 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