"... On Aug 26, 6:52 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: ..."
> Rather, it's easily derivable from a Minkowski space-time. > Einstein knew it and Minkowski knew it. Arrogance is, quite often, > the opinion of the ignorant. I asked you to back up your assertion, > can you? And even more relevant to YOUR arrogance, how have you come > to know that which is unknowable and/or how do you know what is > knowable by me? I dispute your assertion that Minkowski and Einstein "knew" anything and I doubt whether either of them would be so arrogant as to say they "knew" something to be. I believe they would use more relative terms such as "based on such and such it appear that ....". I don't want this to break off into a discussion of knowledge and knowing but the arrogance implicit in such statements as "knowing" anything at all about such ethereal subjects is, as you say, an opinion of the ignorant supported by nothing so much as the hubris and bravado of the speaker (or writer in this case.) As regards your statement that my arrogance has come to let me know that which is unknowable, the easiest thing in the world is to know what one does not know and requires not arrogance but rather humility, a quality which seems to be missing in many of the statements here on ME of late. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
