Theory and Observation in Grice

J:

"Werner Heisenberg I do not claim to be but understand that at a subatomic level, the actual entities are not observed, but inferred--posited."

Interesting.

People seem to overuse or underuse (depending on context), observation, or 'observe'. As my tutor in philosophy of science (G. Ranea) would play with us, "Observe!" he would utter. We were at a loss.

We need a guide to observation.

Ramsey was aware of this when he made the distinction, following "The grammar of science"? -- between:

observation -- observational terms
theory -- theoretical terms.

And the idea of a correspondence rule. I should blame my physics teacher in high school because he would always ask me to go to the board and draw a big atom (Bohr), etc. So I suppose that I have always claimed to have observed that stuff.

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