--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: > > Dear Mario, > Cornel, my soul-mate. Wow! I consider that a > compliment, I am unworthy off. And there I thought > you couldn't say a nice word of either Cornel or me! > Mario responds: > Elisabeth, Cornel sounds like a perfectly fine fellow, pedantic and pessimistic and cynical perhaps, and with a delusion of such superior education and intelligence that for him all knowledge is like silly-putty. Fortunately, the last time I checked 2 + 2 was still 4, and the other major scientific principles were all still working fine, which is good news for those of us forced to live in the real world:-)) Cornel says these may all change, even though, like the principles of Malthus, they haven't for hundreds of years. Perhaps in another million years. > Whew! I'm glad I'm not THAT educated. > However, perhaps you can also gushingly confirm whether you, too, think that all truth is like silly-putty, as Cornel does, and whether you are also a selective "humanist" as he claims to be. > Then we will have a better idea of whether anything you are likely to write is also "provisional":-)) >
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