Open letter to Yaz Murray

After carefully reading a blog casually written and edited by one of my 'learned' colleagues at Uni,Yaz Murray,i have decided to write an open letter of acknowledgement.At least you made me to think extensively this time around and have no hesitation to compliment you for a thought well written.

You mentioned that Karin said,cats see the true colour of grass better than humans.Of course,for now i agree with his a priori approach.Pussy cats and dogs are naturally nocturnal and were went to be hunters before the dominance of humankind found the audacity to domesticate them.And yes they possess vision 20/20.Their eyes were designed for hunting.There is a built-in super sense of smell that emanates from a predominant purposes of hunting for survival.

For interest sake:A dog can distinguish between caprylic acid(an 8 carbon saturated fatty acid,found in coconut,breast milk,etc) and caproic,in highly diluted solutions.The only difference between these two acids is an extra pair of carbon atoms on the chain.In fact dogs are also used by the narcotics department to detect fraudulent smuggling of drugs at airports.This is the simple reason why dogs are always disturbed and bucking for no apparent reason.They smell and see things from afar.

A priori will tell you that the reason why dogs look away when you stare them in the eye is because they are shy.That's bull dust.A mild empiricist will say that they look away because staring is perceived as dominant behaviour and sometimes a threat.

A 14 century English logician William of Ockham is renowned for the occam razor hypothesis.The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make a few assumptions as possible,eliminating those that make no difference in observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis.

Occam's razor tells us to 'not multiply entities unnecessarily',that is if there are two ways to explain something,the one that requires us to assume the existence of as few things as possible is the most likely true.Cats are often scared of vacuum cleaners.One way to explain this is that it might be simply frightened of the sound,perceiving it as a threatening roar.Another is to assume that he hears ghosts in it,which requires the assumption that humans have spirits which live in vacuum cleaners.By using Occam's razor,i would assume the first one is correct.

Simplicity is evidence for truth.But an empiricist ought to challenge me on that.

So cats and dogs see nothing except that they were meant to be hunting in the jungle

Goodnight all