On 30 December 2013 11:55, Pierz <[email protected]> wrote: > Obviously that does not necessarily follow but Mr Owen has invested so > much in his idea (he's written a book - self-published one might assume) > that he is incapable of seriously questioning it any more.
Sigh. That was my first assumption, but I hesitated to say it aloud because it's rather sad to be caught in the "prior investment fallacy" - God knows I staying in a bad marriage for a long time because of it, before finally waking up to reality and cutting my losses. PS I might just take this opportunity to apologise to Andrew Soltau for having only managed to read about 1 chapter of *his* book. Had we but world enough and time, I know, my coyness would be no crime. But all the time I seem to hear time's winged chariot drawing near - which is an inducement to skip all but the very best-presented of theories, and even those get short thrift (I'm still only half way through David Deutsch's "Beginning Of Infinity" and with one or two caveats I worship his ideas). Although I also admit I have done several *Times* crosswords in the last week. Some difficult-to-grasp ideas are just too tempting, like this one... "Swapped rounds from his severance!" (10) PS if anyone can tell me the answer to that clue (which I admit is one of mine) you will get a "CIGAR!" :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
