>Reply-To: guijarro <guijarro@wanadoo.es>
>From: jose luis guijarro <guijarro@wanadoo.es>
>To: relevance <relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>,
> Roberto Casati <casati@idf.ext.jussieu.fr>
>Subject: A strange problem
>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:48:50 +0100
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>Hola!
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>Some people, who consider me a professional "cognitive pragmatist" (I won=
>der
>why!) have asked me an explanation of the following problem which I am
>unable to provide. I submit it to you people in case you do have one. If =
>you
>really want to experience the problem, don't cheat and proceed from the
>beginning to the end.
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>Please count the number of "F" in the following paragraph:
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>FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH =
>THE
>EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
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>How many "F" are there?
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>Have you counted three?
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>There are six!
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>Count them again, please.
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>Do you still have three only?
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>What about the "F" at the end of the three OF? Does our mind doesn't proc=
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>them at all, or are they really non relevant?
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>WHAT IS THE REASON OF IT?
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>Thanks for explaining!
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>Jos=E9 Luis Guijarro
>Facultad de Filosof=EDa y Letras
>Universidad de C=E1diz
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