[MD] Why are things called patterns?

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM,  <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:

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> [Dan]
>> Predators do not recognize patterns of prey... they exhibit preferences.
>Craig:
> How does the hawk prefer a mouse to a piece of wood?  By recognizing the mouse pattern.
> You reject a lot of good science by holding a bad metaphysics.

Dan:
No... I reject overlaying our human characteristics on a hawk. We may
infer that a hawk exhibits preferences but there is no way to know
that the hawk recognizes patterns as we do. And if you think the MOQ
is a bad metaphysics what are you doing here... besides spouting
nonsense?

Dan

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