NancyLebovitz comments on Open thread, July 16-22, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 July 2013 04:33:19PM 1 point [-]

One example would be that people tend to think that their senses automatically give them information, while in fact senses and their interpretation is a very complex process.

Another would be (from what Root-Bernstein says) that very good scientists are fascinated by their tools-- they're the ones who know that the tool might not be measuring what they think it's measuring.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 July 2013 05:49:51PM 1 point [-]

One example would be that people tend to think that their senses automatically give them information, while in fact senses and their interpretation is a very complex process.

And indeed, to capture this notion is why Kant made the distinction between analytic and synthetic a priori knowledge in the first place.