At 07:58 9/06/98 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
I had written: The realist postulate is not about the content of what we
know. All it says is that there is actually something "out there" that is a
basis for our perceptions. The "god exists" postulate, on the other hand,
is very specific about what
At 14:54 10/06/98 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
So we basically agree (since you accept, however provisionally, the
existence of reality), except for some of the terminology. Saying "it would
be nice if this idea were 'true'" is equivalent (I believe) to my assertion
that the realist postulate (that
G'day Penners,
Peter writes:
I like Jim Devine's idea of writing a text like Understanding Capitalism
but with more and better macro, and more on race and gender. To this I
would add material on alternatives, including participatory socialism, and
more on the meaning of global capitalism for
In Ireland the social welfare system is relatively speaking quite generous.
Indeed people immigrate into the country to avail of its benefits. On top of
that one can avail of social welfare benefits and yet work in the black
economy with little fear of being discovered. This is because the state
I've been curious about the subject line for this thread. Does history need
to be defended? Has someone attacked it? Maybe I missed something.
Doug
Key to Stephen Jay Gould's popularity is his ability to present
sophisticated scientific insights in a highly polished literary format, the
essay. We can not take this for granted because the essay is as much of
technical construction as the poem or the novel. Writing a good essay is as
much as a
I wish to gently and respectfully differ with Gould's
characterization of Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ as anti-science
and anti-technology. It was my distinct feeling that although
Shelley portrays Dr. Frankenstein as conflicted, he was not
really portrayed as inherently evil. The doctor,
Tom Kruse originally recommended "Ceremony" to me as an apt
entry point into the writing of Leslie Marmon Silko. Then I heard
somewhere, erroneously, that it was about a Vietnam vet,
so I quickly got hold of a copy.
Silko, herself a half-breed living in Albuquerque, has created
Tayo, a Navajo
James Devine wrote about bankruptcy.
Did anyone notice the story in the Wall Street Journal about the credit
industry's research arm at Georgetown U. doing pr work to support the bill?
Cwiklik, Robert. 1998. "The Problem With Ivory Tower Inc.: When Research and
Lobbying Mesh." Wall Street
does anyone know anything about the revisions of the bankruptcy laws that
is working its way through the US Congress? the L.A. TIMES article today
(June 11, 1998) didn't reveal whether or not the credit-card companies
would get dibs on the bankrupt's money before child support.
Also, it seems to
Two weeks ago this compelling wake-up call appeared simultaneously
in Milwaukee's Shepherd Express and the Westchester (NY) Weekly,
perhaps indicating that once idiosyncratic underground newspapers
are getting into serious networking.
The article, ending with a highly suggestive comment from a
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