At 07:00 PM 8/15/2002 +0200, you wrote: >Le 15.8.2002 16:38, « Bob Talbot » <snapper@st-abbs.fsnet.co.uk> a écrit : > >> Well, maybe not half ... >> >> What is light anyway and how do you know when you only have half of it? >> ... well, try to respond ... >> >> Try to measure dark. > > >Are you suggesting we would only be able to measure half of the dark ;-) >-- >Christiane Why not? Light and dark are conditions. We think in terms of the encroaching darkness of night or the spilling over of a morning sunrise. When someone mentions how dark it was last night, I don't ask how light it was. I ask how dark it was. Light and dark are, to me, much like cold and hot. Here in a bitter Florida winter I don't think of how it was so hot one night that there was actually frost on my truck. I think of how cold it was that night. And how about that quart bottle containing a pint of whatever? Is it half full or half empty? Some would say you can not measure empty but to me two half empty make a complete empty and, and, and, how about that bear that crapped in the woods and no one was there to smell it... would the rose hypothesis still apply? On this list there is _always_ some thing to think about... and I think it is past my nap time. Dave East Englewood -------------------------- Blink rules!
