On 2/11/07, Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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But again, the problem was that somebody had taught me that something was _always true_ when the correct statement would be to say that _this is how we speak of it in this particular language community, but other communities do it differently_. So I'm a firm member of the 'give them as many languages as they are willing to learn' crowd, at any age. my 0.10 euros, Laura
I like your answer Laura. You're in effect reminding students that we have many namespaces (a concept integral to Python), and the very same word *need not* mean the very same thing across namespaces. And thanks to dot notation, we have was to encapsulate and insulate, to counter name collisions. Something *like* dot notation, or dot notation itself, would be welcome in philosophy, is my position on wittgenstein-dialognet, precisely because philosophers are always saying things like "if you don't mean what *I* mean by 'gravity', why not call it 'shmavity' instead?" Computer science offers a more elegant solution. Kirby
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