Liz: the "white rabbit" was an esteemed member of the Everything List in it's 1st decade. - John
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:43 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 February 2014 07:24, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > >> On 2/13/2014 1:04 AM, LizR wrote: >> >> On 13 February 2014 21:38, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: >> >>> If I reported that there was a flying pig, wouldn't comp just >>> explain, "That's the way arithmetic looks from inside."? >>> >>> Why? No. Not at all. >>> You must (using G & Co.) looks at the way arithmetic looks from >>> inside, and if you find the flying pig, then yes, you can say that comp >>> explains the flying pig, but if you see a white rabbit instead (in the >>> arithmetic), you can say that comp does not explain the flying pig, and >>> might be false in case you don't find the white rabbit in nature. >>> >> >> This sounds like my sort of science! >> >> "One pill makes you larger... And one pill makes you small..." >> >> It's unfortunate that the white rabbit with the frock coat and pocket >> watch from Alice in Wonderland became shorthand for 'unreal things', and >> then was further shortened to just "white rabbit" since, in fact, white >> rabbits are quite common and kept as pets. >> >> Well as you can tell from my quote I, at least, was assuming the Alice > one! > > I think "white rabbit" in this sort of discussion is shorthand for "a > white rabbit with a pocket watch appearing spontaneously from nowhere, > muttering about how late he is" .... or words to that effect. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
