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speckles
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Plural of speckle
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My merely seeming to see a speckled hen with two speckles could not, per se, involve judgment error, because it is not in itself a judgment.
But how could I be mistaken in judging, say, that I seem to see a speckled hen with two speckles?
The speckled hen presents an appearance of, say, 48 speckles.
Chisholm (1942) discusses a case in which one sees a speckled hen for a moment, but one is unable to say how many speckles one saw.
Some speckles of green, to show the red earth had held enough water for weeds to shoot, would have tempted him to sow cotton.
People should not get hung up on this, and instead think about the future the way gamblers do: "as speckles of probability".
Take a picture of a shiny object, such as a silver teapot, and you may notice strange coloured speckles, or artefacts, in the brightest parts of the image where the interpolation has been fooled.
Random drift of each bit of glitter means every shot will have different speckles.
Because the operation of each laser is independent of the others, their speckles cancel each other out.
There are laid five or six greenish-to-olive eggs, with darker speckles.
They are generally brown in colour, though some species also have black speckles or bands, and the bellies of most species are a creamy yellow.
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