Sally:
"I am clearly not of the opinion that people never mix days up unless they are mentally ill or drunkards. Now that really is silly.
Of course you realise my opinion as to whether Hutchinson was likely to have mixed the days up on this particular occasion is entirely contextual.
My reasons for thinking so are clearly set out earlier in this thread."
... and I am just as opposed to it all even if you point to the individual as such, Sally. I wrote earlier:
"Since none of us can fully assess the mental state and abilities of George Hutchinson back in 1888, it stands to reason that you may be right - maybe he would not mix things up, given what happened. Then again, you may be wrong - maybe it would even be typical of him to do so!
Who, Sally, can tell? Not me, that´s for sure."
That still stands. There is not one of us that can assess what Hutchinson was about. Therefore, we are forced to work from a general point of wiew, and that point of wiew means that we must ask: can people mix dates up even if there was a day of some sort of significance involved in the days we are looking at?
No, they cannot not, you conclude (or, to make matters worse, at least George Hutchinson could not...?), for if there is such an important day involved, everything else will be easily sorted out by relating to the day in question.
For instance, if I ask you, or anybody else on these boards, what they did in the five days leading up to Christmas, there is no chance that they will mix the days up, since Christmas is such an important day. The same thing will apply to New Years´Eve - we will all be able to readily tell what we did on which day, and since New Years Eve is around, we will not face the hazard of mixing the dates up - something we could well have done any other week of the year ...?
This, if I read you correct, is what we have to lean against, if we want to assert that Hutchinson could never have mixed the days up. And that is also what I would very much like to see some sort of substantiation for. And why? Well, to some extent because I cannot myself tell what I did on which day leading up to Christmas. And that is VERY strange, given that Christmas is such an important day! I am perhaps mentally ill or drunk?
So no, I don´t for a second buy that the circumstances surrounding Hutchinson - or even less what we know of the man himself - allows us to conclude that Dew would have been wrong. If I see some substantiation of this suggestion, however, I will take a fresh look at things. Up til then, though, we are dealing with a non-starter here, I´m afraid.
The best,
Fisherman
"I am clearly not of the opinion that people never mix days up unless they are mentally ill or drunkards. Now that really is silly.
Of course you realise my opinion as to whether Hutchinson was likely to have mixed the days up on this particular occasion is entirely contextual.
My reasons for thinking so are clearly set out earlier in this thread."
... and I am just as opposed to it all even if you point to the individual as such, Sally. I wrote earlier:
"Since none of us can fully assess the mental state and abilities of George Hutchinson back in 1888, it stands to reason that you may be right - maybe he would not mix things up, given what happened. Then again, you may be wrong - maybe it would even be typical of him to do so!
Who, Sally, can tell? Not me, that´s for sure."
That still stands. There is not one of us that can assess what Hutchinson was about. Therefore, we are forced to work from a general point of wiew, and that point of wiew means that we must ask: can people mix dates up even if there was a day of some sort of significance involved in the days we are looking at?
No, they cannot not, you conclude (or, to make matters worse, at least George Hutchinson could not...?), for if there is such an important day involved, everything else will be easily sorted out by relating to the day in question.
For instance, if I ask you, or anybody else on these boards, what they did in the five days leading up to Christmas, there is no chance that they will mix the days up, since Christmas is such an important day. The same thing will apply to New Years´Eve - we will all be able to readily tell what we did on which day, and since New Years Eve is around, we will not face the hazard of mixing the dates up - something we could well have done any other week of the year ...?
This, if I read you correct, is what we have to lean against, if we want to assert that Hutchinson could never have mixed the days up. And that is also what I would very much like to see some sort of substantiation for. And why? Well, to some extent because I cannot myself tell what I did on which day leading up to Christmas. And that is VERY strange, given that Christmas is such an important day! I am perhaps mentally ill or drunk?
So no, I don´t for a second buy that the circumstances surrounding Hutchinson - or even less what we know of the man himself - allows us to conclude that Dew would have been wrong. If I see some substantiation of this suggestion, however, I will take a fresh look at things. Up til then, though, we are dealing with a non-starter here, I´m afraid.
The best,
Fisherman
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