On Mar 22, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
[answering John Howell]
Am I the only one to whom this discussion seems equivalent to
medieval theologians arguing how many angels can dance on the head
of a pin? (And why the head, anyhow, when dancing on the point
would take much more skill?!!!)
I always thought the argument was about the point...
The earliest references actually say the point of a *needle*. I'm
not sure how that evolved to the head of a pin.
It should be noted that there is no documentation of theologians
actually debating this particular question (though they did debate
some similar abstractions), only critical references to the alleged
debate.
mdl
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