Re: Domain Hierarchy

2014-03-04 Thread Keith Henson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:22 AM, trent shipley trent.ship...@gmail.com wrote: I once read a quote that went something like, No action against climate change has ever been taken that resulted in material economic injury to those who took the action. This lead me to think that despite the

Domain Hierarchy

2014-03-03 Thread trent shipley
I once read a quote that went something like, No action against climate change has ever been taken that resulted in material economic injury to those who took the action. This lead me to think that despite the knowledge about climate change at a physical level, humans make decisions based on the

Re: Domain Hierarchy

2014-03-03 Thread David Hobby
On 3/3/2014 10:37 PM, trent shipley wrote: ... The second thing it made me think is that while it cannot be said that one science is more important than another, the discursive domains indexed by sciences can be ranked as more or less foundational or derived, or more pejoratively as reductionist

Re: Domain Hierarchy

2014-03-03 Thread trent shipley
I have a degree in Mathematics. I consider it more of an art than a science. Math is a linguistic game that fortuitously has practical applications. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:44 PM, David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote: On 3/3/2014 10:37 PM, trent shipley wrote: ... The second thing it made