It could be an invention or a discovery. The point is when discoveries are made or objects are invented the technology is available for more than one person or group to do it. >From knowing history, we can look back and say that an invention was about to occur at some date shortly before it happened. We cannot know this in the future unless we have the plans to make the invention oursleves. I hope this is clear now and I can't really believe that this is difficult for anyone to understand. Before anything like an invention can exist, the plan or at least the concept for it must exist in the mind of the inventor. This is what precedes the existence of an invention.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mar 23, 2005 3:32 PM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: Re: Re: LUTE-etymology > > Yes, this is true, Bill. An invention that is about to occur > frequently happens in more than one place around > the same time as the technology, social structure, > etc. that supports it is ready. 'An invention that is about to occur' - it precedes its own existence? ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
