On 30 December 2013 11:55, Pierz <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: > Obviously that does not necessarily follow but Mr Owen has invested so > much in his idea (he's written a book - self-published one might assume) > that he is incapable of seriously questioning it any more.
Sigh. That was my first assumption, but I hesitated to say it aloud because it's rather sad to be caught in the "prior investment fallacy" - God knows I staying in a bad marriage for a long time because of it, before finally waking up to reality and cutting my losses. PS I might just take this opportunity to apologise to Andrew Soltau for having only managed to read about 1 chapter of *his* book. Had we but world enough and time, I know, my coyness would be no crime. But all the time I seem to hear time's winged chariot drawing near - which is an inducement to skip all but the very best-presented of theories, and even those get short thrift (I'm still only half way through David Deutsch's "Beginning Of Infinity" and with one or two caveats I worship his ideas). Although I also admit I have done several *Times* crosswords in the last week. Some difficult-to-grasp ideas are just too tempting, like this one... "Swapped rounds from his severance!" (10) PS if anyone can tell me the answer to that clue (which I admit is one of mine) you will get a "CIGAR!" :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
