On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:31 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I remember a long discussion where John ended up changing his claim that >> step 3 was wrong to it just being trivial. But then he still refused to >> keep reading. At this point I decided he was not serious about the issue. >> > > It's been well over 3 years so I've long since forgotten what those 3 > steps were > We've been discussing this much more recently than 3 years ago. > and I have no intention of wasting my time rereading it, > Then why waste your time arguing it? > but I do know that about half what Bruno says on this list are platitudes > and tautologies (the man who sees Washington will turn out to be the man > who sees Washington) dressed up in a pompous formalism, > The interesting part comes after step 3, but this step is necessary to set up the argument. The more trivial the assertions on the set up, the stronger the argument. You are obviously a highly educated physicist, so you are surely aware of that. By the way, what is the difference between pompous formalism and plain formalism? > and the other half is just silly (intelligence is not needed to do > intelligent things). > I haven't read Bruno or anyone else argue such a thing. Telmo. > > John K Clark > > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
