At 8:01 PM -0700 10/13/02, Sabri Oncu wrote:
I should reiterate that the reason why western rationality
is in quotation marks is because it is not the same thing as
scientific thinking.
Exactly. This is why I had western rationality in quotation
marks in my post that started this
ken hanly wrote:
There is no such Platonic argument. Thrasymachus in the Republic argues this
and gets a good trouncing for doing so at the hands of Socrates. Where do
you think that PLATO argues this? Or do you think that Thrasymachus is
actually Plato in the Republic. That is an
Pobol Annwn! Sut fath o lol 'di hyn, 'te? Be wnawn ni efo'r tomen o
sbwriel gordeimladwy 'ma, rwan?
As an actual (as, in Welsh-speaking) Welshman and a native of Ynys Mon, I
cannot quite put words to what it was that made the local farmer lie to
Mark, although if he was one of the bollockheads
A more interesting question is, assuming that the
US could have prevented 9-11 from happening, what
happened in the national security state from 1998
to 2001 that led up to the conditions that
allowed 9-11 to happen.
Direct blowback theory: that Al Qaeda people
infiltrated a covert
And then there is the alleged meetings between
Atta and an Iraqi diplomat in Prague.
The US government was real keen on the story when
it was thought to show links between Hussein and
Al Qaeda terrorists, but now they disavow the
story. Funny though, the Czechs don't.
What if Atta had indeed
I read this with deep interest and gratitude. It is a wonderful article,
and I say this for both personal and political reasons. I plan to respond
to the politics in the next few days. But now I refer only to the personal.
My family comes from rural North Wales, in the heartland of historical
Title: reductionism vs. radical holism
[was: RE: [PEN-L:31338] Re: RE: Western Rationality]
I wrote:
Lewontin and Levins (in their DIALECTICAL BIOLOGIST) argue against the
Enlightenment version of science. They see the world as heterogeneous,
involving a large number of parts that are
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31353] Re: campus anti-war movements
I wasn't thinking that the draft was the _only_ cause of the anti-war movement in the U.S., only a crucial one. Resentment toward the power of the hegemon encouraged anti-war movements in other countries, such as Japan.
Thomas Ferguson forwarded this story to me. It was published in
yesterday's LA Times (Sunday, October 13).
Bill
Oil Economics Lubricates Push for War
The U.S. may be smacking its lips over the financial benefits
expected from a regime change, but the price could be enormous.
By
At 08:01 PM 10/13/2002 -0700, you wrote:
To put it differently, is there a unique order relation that
partially orders the universal set?
Yes. They call it Nature. And, as Aristotle said, Nature IS order.
The guiding question in science has been How do you read/interpret that
order? The answer
Thiago asked...
Could anyone help me out with early references to planned obsolescence,
specially in the auto industry? When did the debate on this erupt?
Did it ever?
What is some good reading?
Thanks for asking this question. I wish I could remember where I read
years ago that General
Joanna wrote:
To put it differently, is there a unique order relation
that partially orders the universal set?
Yes. They call it Nature. And, as Aristotle said, Nature
IS order.
No objection to that Joanna, nor to almost anything else you
said. But, yours is a different concept of order. I
To put it differently, is there a unique order relation that
partially orders the universal set?
Money.
--
Yoshie
Now Yoshie, I will show that you are wrong by establishing a
contradiction:
Clearly, money defines an order relation that partially orders
the universal set. Suppose now that
Title: war deflation
Deflation is a bigger threat than Saddam
Larry Elliott
Monday October 14, 2002
The Guardian [UK]
Military action by the United States against Iraq seems inevitable. Having won the support of both houses of Congress last week, George W Bush will now step up his
Thanks everybody!
I am currently writing a Master's thesis about social movements in Papua New
Guinea, some of which are known as 'cargo cults'. The planned obsolescence and
positional consumtion stuff seems very relevant in terms of understanding
what's left out of the contrasts made by
Here is a section that relates to planned obsolescence from my book,
Transcending the Economy.
A good deal of our consumption is what Fred Hirsch, following Veblen,
described as positional; in other words, consumption that is supposed to
signal our status to others (Hirsch 1976). Enhancement
--- joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 08:01 PM 10/13/2002 -0700, you wrote:
To put it differently, is there a unique order
relation that
partially orders the universal set?
Yes. They call it Nature. And, as Aristotle
said, Nature IS order.
The guiding question in science has
There might some simple method to the madness.
Hussein is the ultimate capitulation issue.
The US might use trade liberalization to beggar
Europe and E. Asia, but its trade--like its
military policies--is increasingly go it alone.
I suspect the National Security Council has a
deflation
Hangin' with James Baker
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~elgamal/files/primer.pdf
As we shall see, many of the conventional financial tools available in
North America [and most of the rest of the world] are legally prohibited in
Islam.
This may be of interest to some:
http://www.fcc.gov/enbanc/100702/
Sabri
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