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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

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On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:18:06 +0100, Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On 2017-04-13 00:40, nospam wrote:
>> In article <trwHA.4161$3c5.1976@fx34.iad>, Wolf K
>> <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> [Earlier in this thread, nospam wrote:]
>
>>>> colour blindness is not a normal condition, nor is any other handicap.
>>>
>>> Pointless point. On the contrary, it's the abnormalities, as you call
>>> them, that provide insight into how we see colour.
>>
>> comparing someone with a handicap to someone without one is bullshit.
>
> By that logic, comparing anything with anything else is bullshit. So,
> science is impossible.
>
>>>> however, people with colour blindness perceive colour the same as other
>>>> people with the same type of colour blindness.
>>>
>>> Your "perceive colours the same" is unclear. Your objection to the
>>> relevance of colour blindness suggests that you intend "see the same
>>> colours", which cannot in fact be proven. We can prove only that any two
>>> people do or do not perceive the same colour differences.
>>
>> we can prove (and have proven) that people *do* perceive colours the
>> same.
>
> Since you haven't explained exactly what you mean by that, your
> repetition of the claim proves nothing. When you have rephrased your
> claim in operational terms, kindly refer to the experiment(s) that test
> the claim.

He can't, they would be impossible.  For example, describe to me what red looks like.  You could point to something red and say "that", but how do we know I see the same colour when I look at it as you do?  Without extremely clever mind reading machines, there is no way we can ever tell.

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-17 19:26 +0100

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