Re: bONK! Kevin Aylward

From: Genome (Genome_at_nothere.com)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:19:54 GMT

"Paul Burridge" <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote in message
news:vqglf0dheb2gscli3qokgsqshjuen2elqt@4ax.com...
| On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:06:13 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:
|
| >Kevin Aylward wrote:
| >
| >> A measurement is a measurement. "you" refers to whatever set-up is
used
| >> that makes a determination of a parameter value. A human observer
is
| >> irrelevant.
| >
| >You got this completely bass-ackwards. Without a human observer, the
whole
| >exercise becomes irrelevant.
|
| That reminds me of that old philosophical chestnut: if a tree falls
| over where and when there's no one around, does it make a sound? The
| answers bloody obvious if you think about it, but logicians like The
| Kevster are completely thrown by it.
| --
|
| "What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

That's called sophistry and is as high as you might expect to raise
yourself.

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