Well thanks Russell. Note that I was not doing a critic. I have the usual problem with the word "philosophy", which in many places (on the continent means just "marxism" or the more ("postmodern") relativism. But here I was mainly "complaining" that sometimes people talk like if I was proposing some new theory or vision, like some honest pholosopher can do. I am more modest than that, or ... less modest perhaps. I just take seriously a very old "theory" (mechanism) and try to explain the consequences: the testable breakdown of materialism.
Best Regards, Bruno Le 04-avr.-07, à 04:16, Russell Standish a écrit : > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:37:25PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> Just a preliminary remark before I comment your post. Contrary to what >> Russell says in his book, I am not at all a philosopher, I am not >> trying to propose a view of the world or a conception of reality. As I > > I meant the term in the most positive of senses, in much the way that > Science was called Natural Philosophy a few centuries ago. Indeed > Bruno knows far more philosophy than the vast majority of scientists, > and probably more than the average professional philosopher. > > Cheers > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Mathematics > UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---