The common sense and sensibility

Or so many might think. Another possibility is that we should treat the event of a’s heating b as a matter of the instantiation by <a,b> of the relation R and that of b’s being heated by a as a matter of the instantiation by <b,a> of the converse relation R*, considered as distinct events. But see (Fine 2000).
Or possibly confusing the event of the pupil’s becoming more knowledgeable with that of his learning from the teacher, i.e., with the becoming knowledgeable being caused by the teacher’s action; the former is indeed distinct from the teacher’s teaching him (i.e., the teacher’s actions causing his becoming knowledgeable), but the latter, many would say, is not.

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Islam, A. The common sense and sensibility. Metascience 24, 491–496 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-015-0020-2

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