I really appreciate janice's writing, she always has something interesting in
her posts
I was not aware there was a slogan such as 'pretend to work-pretend to get
paid' that struck me as more like a mickey dees or wendies mangerial adage
than something out of the soviet union's past.mickey
The reason it won't work is the nature of man. We've all heard that
fallacy before. Poeple have existed for about 3 - 4 million years.
For most of that time (and still in many cases) we have lived and
worked cooperatively. If our nature was to be greedy, lustful, and
competitive we would
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Hello Bob,
Well, the CPUSA is very serious, and understands the history of vanguardism. But we
may need a party of a new type with a little more fun.
CB
Do they now. Sounds like a concept of party building for the black middle class
surburbanite.
The but who will do the dirty jobs? question is one of those pseudo-philosophical
questions of bourgeois ideology that abstractly deals with man's condition. It is a
question that takes takes a real, historical situation (under capitalist commodity
production, there exist wage-paid jobs that
Comments interjected below:
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Dear Comrades,
Here is something that I hope you will find useful in the Great Debate about how
to react to the Sept. ll tragedy.
Bertell Ollman
EXPLANATION YES; JUSTIFICATION NO
As I am writing this I have heard that the House of Representatives
is debating a multi-billion dollar bailout of the airline industry.
The Senate has already passed the legislation. This is pretty
disgusting. I have two comments:
1) The class bias of Congress is very
While I grieve the loss of life of my fellow human
beings at the Pentagon and the WTC, I think that it is
important for anyone who in any sense considers
him/herself a Marxist or a progressive to remember
that there are folks out there, specifically, but by
no means limited to, the ultra-right
From Holland
;
Subject: [Communist-Party] One minute of silence...
If you are shocked yet with the images of the day 11/09 do
a minute of silence in honour of the supposed 10.000
Americans, the most of innocent civilians, tragically dead
by terrorists who nobody knows who were.
Now you
Oct 18, 2001
http://starbulletin.com/2001/10/18/news/story3.html
Hawaiian studies professor Haunani-Kay Trask said at a UH anti-war forum yesterday
that America should stop using its military to police the world and open foreign trade
markets.
U.S. bears sole blame for Sept. 11, Trask
Just to stir up some discussion, Carl Manzani and others warn against American
pragmatism. Some call pragmatism another name form of opportunism. Maurice
Cornforth termed pragmatism a form of positivism. Hook's sad career seems some
evidence for support of the critrique of pragmatism, since
WHY WE ARE NOT MAKING DEMANDS OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Anti-Capitalist Convergence - New York City
Some might find it strange that the ACC is not making any demands of the
politicians, bankers and CEOs gathering for the World Economic Forum in
New York.
What, precisely, are we protesting,
by unintentional selection. In other words, there
is something of a LaMarckian mechanism at this level as well.
Charles Brown
According to Marx s celebrated saying, people make their own history, but they do
not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen
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On the necessity of socialism
Author: Sam Webb, national chairman, Communist Party USA
People's Weekly World Newspaper, Feb 16, 2002
There is much that is correct in this article. I appreciate periodically
being able to read
Fidel states humanity's struggle is against globalization.
AIN. 21 February 2002.
HAVANA -- Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro pointed out today the
struggle against neo liberal globalization is the common cause of all humanity.
At the closing event of tonight, the IV International Meeting of
please forward, print, copy, distribute, etc
Peace :-)
(Charles Brown will speak representing the Black Radical Congress)
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It should be noted that game theory that the Analytic Marxists,
especially the economist John Roemer and the social scientist
Jon Elster have attempted to use game theory for the purpose
of elucidating certain Marxian concepts. For example, Roemer
has
Though I could be wrong, my understanding is that Roemer would have
accepted
Marx's story (of capitalist exploitation as based on structural coercion)
when he developed his own story, but saw the structural coercion as
unnecessary to the existence of exploitation.
That is exactly correct.
***CALL TO HIP-HOP ARTISTS AGAINST INFINITE WAR***
*IN THE NAME OF THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM, the Bush administration
continues to expand its own campaigns of terror around the world; from Iraq,
where sanctions have killed over half a million children, to Colombia, where
US arms are
Monkey think, monkey do
Primate with brain implant moves cursor just by thinking
www.msnbc.com/news/723526.asp
MSNBC NEWS SERVICES
March 13 - A monkey with a fingernail-size brain implant moved a cursor on a computer
screen just by thinking - the latest in a series of experiments that
Progressive Magazine, Feb 18, 2002 - Web ExclusiveThe
Pentagon Mindset: Poison Them! Deep inside thesixth of eight glowing
articles in its series "10 Daysin September" about what wonderful crisis
managersGeorge W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice are, The WashingtonPost on
February 1 buried the
Chris,
I guess it has long been known that the brain , like other nerve impulses, has
electronic messages. So, I guess this is just a translation of the brain's
electronic message into an electronic message that the computer can read. It is
technically very sophisticated, but conceptually
In Breakthrough, Monkey Think, Computer Do
By ROBERT LEE HOTZ
TIMES STAFF WRITER
L.A. TIMES/March 14 2002
An experimental brain implant the size of an MM has allowed a monkey to
control a computer cursor by thought alone, Brown University researchers
announced Wednesday.
It is the latest
On Pen-l Jim Devine and Ian Murray had this to say:
From: Devine, James
I'm worrying: suppose that they start operating on people,
putting little
chips in their heads so that they can think to control their
computers.
What's the neurological equivalent of an MS Windows Blue Screen?
would
My edition of _Capital_ I says fancy regarding from where wants spring, along with
the stomach.
Imagination is what separates the work of bees and spiders from that of the human
laborer in the chapter on The Labor-Process
Charles
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Indeed! As I recall this
Colombia Voters Reject U.S. War Ruling Parties Lose the
Senate and the House
March 11, 2002
Narco News '02
By Al Giordano
When Colombian voters went to the polls yesterday to elect a new Congress, they
massively rejected the candidates of the traditional ruling two-party system of the
Vietnam
by Ian Murray
21 March 2002 06:50 UTC
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Vietnam's determined war on poverty
Michael Richardson International Herald Tribune
Thursday, March 21, 2002
THACH TUONG, Vietnam Several dozen farmers crowded into a small concrete hut
the other
INTERNATIONAL A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION UPDATE ON APRIL 20
PLANS
We are happy to report that the principal anti-war
coalitions planning demonstrations and rallies on
Saturday, April 20 in Washington DC have agreed to a
concluding unity rally that will be organized and
co-chaired by those coalitions
PAUL FREEMAN, KILLED AT KURSK, JULY, 1921
I have known Paul Freeman since August, 1916. I had just come out of prison, and was
on a propaganda trip to the famous desert mining camp of Broken Hill. Paul, was, like
myself, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the most universal
Ken Lay and George Bush Dance Their Last Tango
Author: Tim Wheeler, Editor of PWW
First published Mar 20, 2002
A friend who has lived in Houston for 35 years took me on a tour of the Bayou City
recently. Our first stop was Enron's gleaming twin towers.
In front of the building is
Corporate Power Is the Enemy of Our Democracy
Published on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 in the Long
Island, NY Newsday
by Robert Jensen
GEORGE W. BUSH says he likes to put things in simple
terms. Let's adopt his strategy and ask: Do Americans
want to struggle to create a rich democracy, or are
South Africa Shouldn't Have to Go Tougher on Mugabe
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-20181mar20.story
COMMENTARY
By GERALD HORNE
March 20 2002
In the wake of the recent victory of President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe
elections, African
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Incredible. One moment you are thinking about your next rotation or new permanent
position at Enron Corp., and the next moment your company is telling you to leave the
building in thirty minutes and to not come back. On top of this absurdity, your 401k
is depleted, your
This is another devastating loss for our side. I am very sad myself.
We will win.
Charles
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At 12/04/02 11:29 -0400, you wrote:
Coup in Venezuela:
It sounds as if by yesterday the battle was lost.
How could the risk of this fall have been avoided?
At least 200,000 people have come spontaneously to demand Chavez's
liberation, Lara said of the gathering outside the palace.
All power is with the People in Venezuela.
CB
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AFP. 13 April 2002. Chavez supporters negotiating his release so he can
return
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Welcome scenes on CNN of the return of Chavez to the Presidential Palace.
The situation obviously still remains dangerous. In terms of how the risk
of such coups against radical democratic governments should be avoided, I
note that
An Imminent Coup in
Re-deconstructing the White Stripes and Detroit's conquest of the UK.
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London's Detroit bar and restaurant, home of the steaming manhole special.
Union jackals
Re-deconstructing the White Stripes and Detroit's conquest of the UK.
by Shireen
FLASHNEWS
Venezuela and the CIA
By Frontlines staff
President Chavez, of Venezuela said he is investigating the presence in
a Venezuelan Navy Base of a private airplane with US markings. Chavez
witnessed the presence of the airplane during his stay in the island of
Orchila, where he was
Israel and Palestine Stop Blaming the Victims
Paddy's home page
http://apling.freeservers.com/Kosovo/PalestineMandate.htm
The long arm of history on the Palestine problem.
The Palestine problem arises directly from the stupid contradiction between two
declarations by the British Government
Media may hear from Chavez
April 15, 2002
Hugo Chavez
(AFP)
By HECTOR TOBAR, Times Staff Writer
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Free after 48 hours under military arrest, President Hugo Chavez
retook control of Venezuela on Sunday and began anew to place his personal stamp on
the country.
He
U.S. Bankrolling Is Under Scrutiny for Ties to Chávez Ouster
April 25, 2002
NYT
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
In the past year, the United States channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars in
grants to American and Venezuelan groups opposed to President Hugo Chávez.
Full Story:
Old Thaxis topic
This came up on LBO-Talk.
Charles
^
A footnote on value theory / More tedious metaethics
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CB: Actually,I think Marx's exact formulation with the terms value and
substance is in the heading of the first page of _Capital_,
To the Editor:
I very much enjoyed your We're history. One of your themes reminded me of Coleman
Young's words in his autobiography _Hard Stuff_ ( page 2 Viking 1994) :
The real message lies in the fact that since 1914, when Henry Ford's futuristic
production system and new-wage workday
No problem , comrade :). Of course the time period you were discussing was
complex ( what time isn't complex ?), and you said a lot more than what I
commented on. You may have been referring to right after the NNLC, the
TULC period, not the NNLC, etc. And , also, of course, there was white
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CB: Shouldn't this be termed The Negro PETIT Bourgeois Democratic National
Movement ?
Comment
I am not sure. Negro Bourgeois Democratic National Movement in the
pre-October era defines the political aspiration of an all class movement.
Yea, I don't know why I keep sending these to the wrong lists.
CB
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Comment
1. The concept of the carrying capacity of the earth as an aspect of what
is called sustainability, is in my opinion fundamentally Malthusianism,
even in the hands of Mark Jones. Generally, the following
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=607254
Global warming: scientists reveal timetable
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Correspondent
03 February 2005
A detailed timetable of the destruction and distress that global warming is
likely to cause the world was
[Marxism-Thaxis] Re:
Waistline2
CB: Again to keep using this phrase becomes willful slander and
misrepresention. Too many is always a relative term. Too many relative
to what ? We may reach a point that there are too many people to keep warm,
make food for relative to the amount of
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Me: And they are right . . . really. I respect your opinion but this is
the dispute. Here is the argument. You say they are right. I say they are
wrong. That is the dispute. This is what I call bad math and bourgeois
ideology.
^^^
CB: Well, yeah, _you_'re right. I was being a
We can dispense with the Moynihan's demogogic term benign. The U.S.
government policies are in the nature of malign with respect to many cities.
CB
^
George Bush to Visit Cobo Center Tuesday
He Will be Addressing the Detroit Economic Club
Gather at the Ponchatrain Hotel at 10:00 a.m.
From: Waistline
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The problem from my particular standpoint is that we have never discussed in
a general way the metabolic impact of everything produced and eaten. Where
in comrade Jones presentation is need - in the Marxist sense, even
presented, although my notes were not directed
sartesian :
On the off-chance that somebody else might be reading Charles Brown's posts,
I thought I would speak for myself and allow that/those somebody elses to
determine where the slander is and who's the idiot.
My argument with Mark Jones was based on his allegiance to, and parroting
to
Concerning anecdotal evidence, my father lived to 82, my mother is 82, all
my grandparents lived to 80's, one nineties. They all ate cheese. :)
How long do you want to live ? Everybody has got to die of something. Some
food we eat because eating is one of the simple pleasures of life: Eat ,
Re: Waistline2
Healthy life expectancy is currently being redefined. I would like to get at
least another 30 years of healthy living and die when the electrical charge
of most of my cells fade. Everything we eat is inherited, rather than
inherent. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die
acpollack2 :
P.S. I'm surprised by how no-one commented on the mention of Mayr's
partiality to dialectics in his obit!
^
CB: Thanks for pointing that out to us.
Jim F. ? Reminds of our old Thaxis struggles on dialectics of nature.
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Healthy life expectancy and life expectancy are two very different concepts
of human health. The latter measured life span without regard to the
physical
conditions of the individual or mass.
Healthy life expectancy as defined by the World Health Organization.
Healthy
Global warming: tragedy of the commons revisited
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=2/14/2005Cat=7Num=1
PARIS, (AFP) - Way back in 1968, U.S. ecologist Garrett Hardin sketched
the dilemma that today besets the Kyoto Protocol, the UN's global warming
pact which takes effect on
Ernst Mayr dies
Towering figure of 20th century evolutionary biology was 100 | By Leslie A
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Ernst Mayr, the eminent evolutionary biologist and arguably one of the most
influential scientists
My understanding is that those who are homozygous for sickle cell gene have
the disease regardless of diet.
CB
^^
http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/scd_history.html
A Brief History of Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle Cell Disease in African Tradition
Sickle cell disease has been known to the
In truth, Garrett Hardin's 'landmark' essay, The Tragedy of the Commons
was merely a propaganda piece buttressing lassiez-faire market ideology..and
retro and pro-actively justifying the seizure by capitalist interests of all
public and communal assets.
As E.P. Thompson long ago pointed out,
Comment
They claim . . . really. I do know who they are and I disagree with
them concerning the approach to the anemia associated with sickle cell
disease.
They are the modern bourgeois chemical scientists and metaphysicians of
properties. All scientists are not bad, but they have to eat and the
Charlotte Franken, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, was born in London
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITlondon.htm on 27th April 1894. Her
father, Joseph Franken, was a fur dealer from Germany
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Germany.htm . In 1906 the family
moved to Belgium
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Eslanda Goode, the daughter of John Goode and Eslanda Cardozo, was
born in Washington in
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Assistant Professor of International Studies
Trinity College
Acknowledgements to Elisabeth Armstrong and Johnny Williams for leads and
for interpretation.
Paul Robeson, 1931 http://www.proxsa.org/politics/paul.jpg
The Sun is ours. The earth will
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The legacy of Benjamin J. Davis
Ben Davis was born September 8, 1903, in Dawson, Ga. He grew up in a
relatively privileged African American home. His father was the editor and
publisher of the
. But then Lisa died suddenly, and this conversation,
like many other conversations between us, was cruelly ended by
circumstance. Sigh.
At 06:09 PM 2/18/2005 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
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Steve Gabosch b
Christian Fuchs has an article in a 2003 issue of Nature Society and
Thought (Vol 16 No 3) entitled The Self-Organization of Matter that
continues the discussion of finding parallels between dialectics and what I
tend to call emergence theory (aka hierarchy
Editorial: Receivership looms as real budget work remains
The progressive bloc on the Detroit city council blindsided us with their
vote in favor of the mayor's pension bond deal.
^^^
Comment: Blindsided us is a completely inappropriate way to characterize
what the progressive bloc did. To
Steve Gabosch:
Hi, Charles. Yes, treasure trove is a very good description. Same with the
wealth of discoveries in complexity science etc. - there is a tremendous
field of knowledge now extant that dialectical materialism can help
generalize, and like you and Ralph, I think emergence theory
Behind the claim that men are better than women at math...
Sexism disguised as science
Socialist Workers, February 18, 2005
PHIL GASPER exposes the pseudo-science myths of Harvard President Lawrence
Summers.
IN THE nineteenth century, scientific opinion held that women were
biologically
l Salaam Comrade Robeson
Vijay Prashad
Assistant Professor of International Studies
Trinity College
Acknowledgements to Elisabeth Armstrong and Johnny Williams for leads and
for interpretation.
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Anarchists of the world unite you have nothing to loose but your
decentralized principles!
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For some reason, natural scientists chose a jurisprudential metaphor as
central in its discourse. In the original context, laws _are_ broken, i.e. ,
they are not absolute. In fact the central dialectical law is abstract
anti-absolute lawism: All laws are eventually broken, everything turns
into
1. Is the working class declining ?
2. What defines membership in the working class ?
3. Does the working class include others besides wagelaborers in material
production ?
4. Do wagelaborers outside of the sphere of material production create value
?
5. What are service workers ?
6. Are
Waistline2
In Russia the social revolution was from agriculture to industry and no one
disputes this.
CB: I dispute this as the best way to describe it. What do you mean no one
disputes this ?
From agriculture to industry, means from _manufacture_ to industry in the
technologicial regime.
Waistline2
Once we agree that
human beings are the most revolutionary agent in human history and the
precondition for history, means of production need to be defined.
^
CB: Human beings are the _only_ revolutionary agent(s) in human history.
Human beings are the only agents in human
Ralph Dumain:
There's a treasure trove buried inside mountains of crap,
CB: No doubt true. Maybe we can even use some of the crap as fertilizer for
fruitful endeavor :), and then treasures of yore are surrounded by earthly
dirt.
Thanks for all these direct texts , Ralph ! I will be
AIIMS pioneers stem cell injection
VIVIDHA KAUL
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2005 11:35:37 PM ]
NEW DELHI: At seven months, Ishika Gupta has already been hospitalised
five times. She suffers from cardiac myopathy, a disease which is
causing her heart muscles to
as supervenience and downward causation.
BTW, did Whitehead have any kind of social theory?
At 02:35 PM 2/25/2005 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
Ralph Dumain:
There's a treasure trove buried inside mountains of crap,
CB: No doubt true. Maybe we can even use some of the crap as fertilizer
[Marxism-Thaxis]
Waistline2
WL: I do not understand the concept mode of production to mean a set of
property
relations but rather, the specific shape of the productive forces and the
technological regime as primary, with the property relations within.
^
CB: Well, again this
Ralph Dumain
Pass out?--meaning got to get some sleep and can't hold out any longer.
CB: By all means.
^^
There are a number of important connections between people that drop out of
historical awareness. One task of scholarship is to restore those
connections. The 1990s were a
Over the weekend, I ran into a running buddy of yours at the Workers World
forum. His name is Abdul.
Also, Nelson Peery spoke at the reopening of the Midwest Labor Library and
forum on the National Negro Labor Council. Peery said that it was Paul
Robeson, not Stokeley Carmicheal who coined
Show where Marx states the mode of production is a set of property
relations.
Please.
Waistline.
^^
CB: To me it's an inference. Capitalism is a mode of production from , for
example, The wealth of the nations in which the CAPITALIST MODE OF
PRODUCTION PREVAILS And he defines
I've taken a look at some of Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels
mathematical career. As to specifically the career and reading list aspect
of the critique, the thought that occurs to me is that Van H. does not seem
to consider that Engels may have had very advanced uses of mathematics as a
WL: I am actually smiling because you basically state that defining the mode
of production as a set of property relations is AN INFERENCE. However, he
who does not accept your particular understanding of this INFERENCE is
outside 'THE MARXIST definition as you understand it.
CB: I'm smiling
I'm not sure that abstract mathematics was altogether destroyed in the
Soviet Union's academics, because of some anecdotal evidence I have.
When I was an undergraduate in 1968, the honors math majors ( the best math
students) _had_ to take Russian language courses, because so much of the
world's
Barkley Rosser used to be on this list.
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CB
Barkley Rosser's Home Page
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/2005 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
They were probably doing good physics and math all along. Don't think they
suddenly changed course and caught up and passed the rest of the world.
Crude scientists would not have been able to pick up on the atom bomb so
quickly. You know Sputnik and all
I have been reading Ralph Dumain's notes. The notion of everything as
process /nothing is a particle seems a neo-Hericlitean one.
Charles
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Marx, and, for that matter, Jay Gould (he and Dan Dennett - the
American reductionist philosopher - fought over this issue) did not regard
development to be incremental or continuous. The dialectic, the successive
emergence of negations of previous conditions
Gould's statement that punctuated equilibrium is a form of dialectic is
good.
I think Gould's emphatically rejects something that is not dialectics.
Dialectics is _not_ that all change is punctuated. It is that change is both
equilibriated or gradual _and_ punctuated. Dialectics does not fail
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/
Frederick Engels (1883)
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Table of Contents
Preface
Dialectics of Nature. Frederick Engels (1883)
1. INTRODUCTION
MODERN natural science, which alone has achieved an all-round systematic and
scientific development, as contrasted with the brilliant
natural-philosophical intuitions of antiquity and the extremely important
but sporadic discoveries
Note: Engels sort of one sentence definition of dialectics is the science
of interconnections. Most discussions of dialectics don't even mention this
emphasis, rather quantity to quality to quantity, contradiction, change are
emphasized.
CB
Engels' Dialectics of Nature
II. Dialectics
Waistline2
* My question is how does heating water to a boiling point change the
quality
of water rather than its form?
I agree that the form of a thing can change in front of its constituent
parts. What quality of H2O has changed?
^
CB: I think there is a problem with
Ralph Dumain :
These quotes are all fine, and show these authors at their best. The issue
is, however, developing the logical precision to analyze specific
phenomena. As expressed, these are all general thematic principles, which
do not function well merely as being quoted chapter and
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