From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 14:37:33 MST
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:12:25 -0800 (PST), Adrian Tymes
<wingcat@pacbell.net> wrote:
> That is what you meant, but not what you said.
That is what he said, but not what you heard.
> The
> problem is, what they hear is what you say
Absent channel noise, their sense receptors are stimulated by energy
patterns which approximate the energy patterns emitted.
But hearing, used in the way you did (/reading) is a neural _and_ cognitive
thing.
No, what they hear is typically /what they think (feel) you meant/,
as the rest of your wording implies:
> - and,
> moreover, a version of it warped to fit their own
> biases. A thing, especially a mental thing such as a
> concept, does not actually have to exist to be
> attacked: see "straw man".
I agree with the thrust of your point.
Insert genial :) if helpful.
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