RE: musings on time

2016-07-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Hey it’s been a while… been following some discussions from time to time, lurking I guess…. without further ado this is what I am musing on – today at least -- in the form of a poem. Time a Musing Time, this tapestry upon which the stories of the universe are written. This weave,

Re: Holiday Exercise (was: self (was Re: Aristotle the Nitwit

2016-07-24 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > ​> ​ > You betray that you are so much Aristotelian that > ​Aristotle was a nitwit. ​ > ​>​ > It is *the* very idea of Plato that ​Plato was a nitwit.​ ​> ​ > Aristotle in a nutshell > ​​ > ​Should remain

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-07-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 04:34:21PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > > ​You say I'm confused and then start babbling about "*the* 1-view*s*"! ​ > > ​That should be "the 1-view" . I know English isn't your first language but > plural isn't used after "the".​ > Rubbish! One can use the before a plural

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-07-24 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​ >> ​Both don't see both cities at the same time, but John Clark certainly >> will. > > > ​> ​ > This is you clearest way to express your confusion between the 3-1 view > and the 1-views. > ​You say I'm confused and

Re: Holiday Exercise (was: self (was Re: Aristotle the Nitwit

2016-07-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Errata: On 24 Jul 2016, at 16:55, Bruno Marchal wrote: It is Moscow and not Washington for all of them, and Washington and not Moscow for all for them, but the key point is that both agree that they could not predict that answer in advance, and that when opening the door, they knew in

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-07-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jul 2016, at 01:09, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​John Clark's idea that he remains the one person John Clark, ​Being the world's greatest ​​expert on John Clark I can say with some authority that is NOT John Clark's idea,

Re: Holiday Exercise (was: self (was Re: Aristotle the Nitwit

2016-07-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Jul 2016, at 19:24, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​"our world" cannot be taken as a primitive notion in our setting. ​If nothing else I admire your courage, most people would be embarrassed to admit that they