> No, I'm not.
> Someone replied that "all thought is old". How dreary! And more important,
> how untrue!
> I am a fan of the human potential for growth and change.. It makes no
> difference that we are so often wrong--it is the times we are right that
> uplift the whole project.
> Art and science build upon the old, and destroy it in the process. The
> correct ideas (Democritus' atomism!) persevere and grow, while the chaff (
> Thales' H2O monism, much of Newtonian physics) is consigned to the dustbin
> and rightly so.
> We are but babes in our scientific and philosophical knowledge. When I
see
> the wars and pollution etc., I don't despair for the end of the world, I
> just think, "Someday we will look back on this time and shake our heads in
> disbelief at our ignorance."
>
> mc
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:27 PM
> Subject: Re: 'prepare' njc
>
>
> > Yes, if ideas were just memories, how could newness ever come into the
> world?
> >
> > So you're not a fan of Platonic forms, Mark? ;-)
> >
> > Sarah
