This is a great idea. But ONLY if we think of it as a remedy, not as a
remediation. I would always argue for the minimalification of latinate
suffixes.
But it really is a great idea.
Nick
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From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On
Nick, I didn't (and wouldn't) use the noun remediation (at least,
not to mean remedy). As verbs, remediate and remedy have
different senses to me (and to the OED). In particular, the OED says
(and I agree--though I don't claim this was in my mind) that
remediate includes the sense of
Dear Doug,
I am afraid that the black hole example is already too technologically dense
for me, so I am going to punt on the project of luring you inside my walls
and slaughtering you there, and just out-right tell you what I think
.
The argument began with my detecting in you (perhaps
With apologies to everyone but Lee:
The word remediation could be two entirely different words, one arising
from remedy and the other arising from mediate. The first mediation
failed, so we agreed to remedy the situation by conducting a remediation is
a perfectly intelligible sentence without
With apologies to everyone but Lee:
The word remediation could be two entirely different words, one arising
from remedy and the other arising from mediate. The first mediation
failed, so we agreed to remedy the situation by conducting a remediation is
a perfectly intelligible sentence
In the easy-to-use WebGL-based GlowScript 3D programming environment
(glowscript.org) you can now specify the opacity of an object (other
than curve, ring, and helix). The following statement creates a
cyan-colored cube that has low opacity (high transparency):
box( {color.cyan, opacity:0.2 } )
Thanks, Nick, you describe an interesting way of establishing a life-view.
Not quite sure how to answer, except to say that if I have faith in
anything, it is in evidence. If I have accrued a sufficient pile of
evidence that supports a conclusion about some observation, then I'll
probably
Doug wrote
In retrospect, I suppose I do have faith in one other fairly immutable
quality -- the accuracy of my bullshit detector
Well, why not. it's always worked in the past .. .
Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Douglas
Very clever.
--Doug
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Doug wrote
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In retrospect, I suppose I do have faith in one other fairly immutable
quality -- the accuracy of my bullshit detector
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Well, why not. it’s
Nice gloss of Goodman. But it also suggests a problem with philosophy: the
need to make *demonstrably true* statements. Induction in mathematics is a
proof technique. When applied to reality it doesn't work because the axiom
of induction isn't available for reality. But then notion of a *true
Dear Doug and Russ,
Russ,
I have been reading a lot of CS Peirce who defines truth as what will in the
long run be agreed upon if we keep doing science about the world, and real
as all that is true, as that upon which rational inquiry converges. Its a
strange view, but it seems to
I like C D Broad's take on this: Induction is the glory of science and the
scandal of philosophy. (1926, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon).
I think there's a lot of truth in this... induction is simply not a problem
for science and scientists. Scientists have used induction to give the most
Owen,
As I understand it:
Doug announced his ordination. After a bit of banter, Doug made some
generalizations about religious and non-religious people based on his past
experience but... the ability to draw conclusions from past experience is a
bit philosophically mysterious. The seeming
The inductive argument for induction [paraphrased from Eric]: The fact that
induction has been so successful in the past should convince of its
usefulness in the future.
*-- Russ Abbott*
*_*
*** Professor, Computer Science*
* California State
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