Brad,
Well put.
You may be right to link the Sophists with American Pragmatics.
The sophists, perhaps, would say: You know no more about this than you did
yesterday - so why are you still talking about it?
Not a way to become loved, but what can you expect from someone who spouts
Hi Pete,
John Archibald Wheeler has been a hero of mine also. However, I don't think
I've read of an account of the implications he draws of the two-slit
experiment that has been written so well and so economically. Thank you for
a quite brilliant posting.
Keith
At 21:44 21/05/02 -0700, you
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Harry Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pete,
Look out, here comes the neo-sophist!
Attempting to understand the meaning of life may be great fun, but it has
no reward other than the act itself.
Absolutely. A criterion which characterizes all the best things in life.
pete wrote:
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for mysticism, I believe Robert Musil was onto something
very important when he urged us to see the mystical
not in fuzzy-headedness, but as the heart of the most exacting
scientific and engineering
Harry Pollard wrote:
pete,
Look out, here comes the neo-sophist!
[snip]
I believe that we do not know who the Sophists were.
Long before Stalin, Plato succeeded in writing his
adversaries out of history except to make it a
truism that they were bad.
I suspect some Sophists were indeed
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for mysticism, I believe Robert Musil was onto something
very important when he urged us to see the mystical
not in fuzzy-headedness, but as the heart of the most exacting
scientific and engineering praxis: an engineer
