On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 7:28:30 PM UTC, Brent wrote: > > On 1/12/2015 5:01 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Like "universe" meant a tortoise on the top of another tortoise, except > that in the field of theology, the corresponding "tortoise" has been made > into a dogma.i > > > And evidence came to change that meaning. If someone now wrote using > "universe" to mean "a tortoise on the top of another tortoise" he would > be thought either crazy or guilty of deliberate obfuscation. > > Brent >
You'd need a more literal meaning for that...the tortoise was a metaphorical capture - with value-add promoting comprehension of 'reductionism' as a goal-dependent conception (i.e. some goals like seeking a most fundamental particle invoke inherent problems, a good illustration being the tortoises.) -- 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/d/optout.
