Re: [FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce

2023-07-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
Nick, Would the claim that there are more rational numbers (fractions, loosely speaking) than integers be an example of the common experience of the world? Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 11:38 AM Nicholas

Re: [FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce

2023-07-13 Thread Roger Critchlow
glen > > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 8:48 AM > > To: friam@redfish.com > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce > > > > It's been mulled over. E.g. > > > > What can we know about that which we cannot even imagine? > > https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03886v

Re: [FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce

2023-07-13 Thread glen
: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 8:48 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce It's been mulled over. E.g. What can we know about that which we cannot even imagine? https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03886v1 "Experience" seems, by definition, hopeless

Re: [FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce

2023-07-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
It's hard for me not to draw some life lesson from this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04836.pdf -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 8:48 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce It's been mulled over. E.g. What can we

Re: [FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce

2023-07-12 Thread glen
It's been mulled over. E.g. What can we know about that which we cannot even imagine? https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03886v1 "Experience" seems, by definition, hopelessly fragile to context. If your experience is similar to someone else's experience, then you're in a cult. Get out! There's

[FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce

2023-07-10 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Dear Colleagues, Jon Z and Frank have me reading Cormac McCarthy. I have started with his last book, Stella Maris (?Star of the Sea?). It is the dialogue that each of us has always wished we had with our psychiatrist . It is witty, often funny, makes lots of references to Los Alamos, is always