There is no such Platonic argument. Thrasymachus in the Republic argues this and gets a good trouncing for doing so at the hands of Socrates. Where do you think that PLATO argues this? Or do you think that Thrasymachus is actually Plato in the Republic. That is an interesting theory.
Cheers. Ken Hanly... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 7:55 AM Subject: [PEN-L:31316] Re: Re: What is science > > > Charles Jannuzi wrote: > > > >The science report > > is that sad sick pretense of an exercise in c/v > > building that pretends we can. > > > > The basis both of "SCIENCE" (deified -- as at Sceptical Inquiere) and of > SCIENCE (demonized -- as with Carl & too many others) -- is the Platonic > argument that a mathematician is not a mathematician when he/she is > making a mistake. Both (Carl & Sceptical Inquirer) are pitching religous > woo-woo and can't tell us much about the actual world. > > Carrol >
