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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for Factive in alt.philosophy
Author: Immortalist
Date: Dec 3, 2006 10:08
.... Thus, seeing that your coffee cup is yellow and that the pencil is green involves the possession of the concepts COFFEE CUP, YELLOW, PENCIL and GREEN. Such perception is termed "perceiving that," and is factive; that is, it is presupposed that you perceive the world correctly. To perceive that it is raining, it must be true that it is raining. You can also, though, perceive the world to be...
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Author: Goober
Date: Sep 29, 2006 23:36
.... What he presents as the parallel hypothesis is that "there WERE rearing up from the invisible crystalline envelope on the moon, even greater mountain peaks". "Were" is plural and FACTIVE. <quote> Galileo, to expose the argument _ad ignorantium_, offered another of the same kind as a caricature. Unable to prove the nonexistence of the transparent crystal SUPPOSEDLY filling...
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