Generally speaking, if a topic isn't interesting to me, I just pass over it. I don't expect other people--for whom it is interesting--to stop talking.
In fact, I find the logic of scientific inquiry very interesting. I think this is partly because what scientists actually do, and what philosophers say they do, is somewhat disjunct. I don't have anything to contribute to this discussion, but that doesn't mean I'm not reading or uhhumming as I read. Carry on, Nick et al. P. On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Here I am on vacation .. The Broadmoor in Colorado springs .. And wanting to > say that > 1 wtf ?? Why would you leave such an interesting discussion? > 2 who would ask you to end it? > 3 ..etc > > When we fear for what is interesting to others, we forfeit our souls. > > Really, I fear for friam. > > ---- Owen > > > I am an iPad, resistance is futile! > > On Apr 9, 2012, at 11:32 PM, "Nicholas Thompson" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, everybody, >> >> >> >> Somebody (whom I respect greatly) has “eldered” me, writing to say that I am >> in danger of driving everybody nuts with my new found interest in the logic >> of scientific inquiry. So I will give it a rest, and lurk for a month. If >> anybody wants to talk off line about any of the topics I have been >> pestering you about, I would of course be happy to do so. Take care. Talk >> to you on May 9th. >> >> >> >> Nick >> >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org "She instructed me as if out of bitter personal experience; she brooded along the edges of my childhood like someone living out a long Tennysonian regret." Wallace Stegner, "Angle of Repose"
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