On 24 Nov 2012, at 11:15, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
Every great discovery of man (even in logic and mathematics)
started as a possibility (an insight, conjecture, an intuition, a
hypothesis )
in the mind of a man. The transistor, the basis of the computer,
started
as a possibi
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>From: Stathis Papaioannou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>A couple of hours ago, I was speaking to a you
Le 06-juin-05, à 07:14, rmiller a écrit :
Slip-ups aside, I would like to see a rigorous application of the
powerful tools of philosophy, logic and mathematics applied to the
study areas of social science, i.e. the real world. Physicists are
great at telling us why the rings of Saturn have
At 12:50 AM 6/6/2005, you wrote:
A couple of hours ago, I was speaking to a young man who informed me that
he can predict the future: he has visions or dreams, and they turn out to
be true. I asked him for an example of this ability. He thought for a
moment, explaining that there were really fa
At 12:50 AM 6/6/2005, you wrote:
A couple of hours ago, I was speaking to a young man who informed me that
he can predict the future: he has visions or dreams, and they turn out to
be true. I asked him for an example of this ability. He thought for a
moment, explaining that there were reall
psychic", my patient said (for that is
what he was), "I don't know what will!"
My question to the list: should I have stopped this man's antipsychotic
medication?
--Stathis Papaioannou
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CC: "Giu
Re the hypotheses---Social scientists, astronomers and CSI agents are the
only ones I'm aware of who routinely evaluate events after the fact. The
best, IMHO, such as the historian Toynbee, fit facts to a model. At it's
worst, the model becomes the event and before long we&
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