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watch stops displaying the time and changes its face to show it’s receiving a calibration signal from the U.S. atomic clock in Ft. Collins, Colorado. When reception—which takes 3 to 6 minutes—is complete, the clock displays the recalibrated time and resumes its normal operation. If the signal is interrupted (perhaps because of atmospheric conditions), reception ends, and the watch goes back to displaying the time. Figure 11.16 models all this. To avoid clutter, I used an elided format to show the time

thenceforward. 3 ____________________ 3I am indebted to Davidson for this point and to Schrödinger, What Is Life?, for the example. -49Or again consider the occasion sentences 'Indian nickel' and 'Buffalo nickel'. These have distinct stimulus meanings for a boy for his first minute or two of passive acquaintance with these coins, and when he gets to turning them over the stimulus meanings tend to fuse. Do they fully fuse? The question whether 'Indian nickel' and 'Buffalo nickel' have the same stimulus meaning