Eventually, like all infants, after you
had developed this hypothesis, that's the fancy
word for your idea, you predicted that the person would bring you the spoon.
And you decided to do an experiment.
And here's how that experiment went: you held your
hand up, you looked at the person who was supposed
to bring you the spoon, you drop the spoon
and you look down to see where the spoon went.
And then you looked back at the person
that who was supposed to bring you the spoon.
You did experiment to see will that person bring me the spoon again or not?
In other words, you made a new observation.
And that new observation about whether or not the person brought you the
spoon either supported or refuted your
hypothesis about why that person was there.