At 12:17 AM 6/28/00 +1000, you wrote: >That leaves what I take to be the true dialectician, who is never wrong, >because s/he's always content with the useless (by natural scientific >standards of proof and prediction). a dialectician might never be wrong in terms of abstract theory, but when that theory is stated as a more concrete model, it could be empirically or logically wrong. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine