at 12:43 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Lee,
Your response is self-contradictory. Hating values IS a value.And
besides, I know you are full of the damned things. (values). N
-Original Message-
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of
lrudo
Roger,
Actually that's PRE-conscious. Unconscious is all the grubby, icky stuff;
preconscious is the lilty, playful, creative stuff. It was vanGogh's
preconscious that did the paintings; it was his unconscious that cut off his
ear.
You heard it first from me.
Nick
From:
PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How to avoid shootings
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:56:44PM -0700, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
And you forgot our genocide? For some reason I imagine that the
Australian genocide was less vicious. I hope
And you forgot our genocide? For some reason I imagine that the Australian
genocide was less vicious. I hope the Australians on the list will weigh in
on that. N
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 9:18 PM
To: The Friday
Oh, Well DONE! I have kept forgetting to call. I will be there!
Nick
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:24 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: [FRIAM] Friday the 23 of Nov
I
What else is happening Friday morning?
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Edward Angel
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 10:38 AM
To: The Coffee Group Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Subject: [FRIAM] This week
Is there any sentiment for moving
.
Sorry, again.
Nick
From: Nicholas Thompson [mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 11:36 AM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: RE: [FRIAM] This week
What else is happening Friday morning?
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com
?
What about you, do you vote for Romney, Obama or someone else, like Gary
Johnson? From a psychological aspect, this election is interesting, isn't
it?
-J.
Am 04.11.2012 03:39, schrieb Nicholas Thompson:
Jochen,
At this week's FRIAM meeting, we talked briefly about politics
My prurient interest in seeing Romney elected is seeing what a man without
any center does when he's in charge? My reference to the supreme court was
not and enthusiasm for a Bush v Gore kind of out come .. I think there might
be blood in the streets, if that happened again, chiefly because I
.
I was not thrilled with Obama's bending over to Wall Street. But on most
other issues, I'm okay with him; he'll get my vote.
On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
My prurient interest in seeing Romney elected is seeing what a man without
any center does when he's
Jochen,
At this week's FRIAM meeting, we talked briefly about politics and it was
clear that there was some disagreement around the table. We were about to
let it go, on that ground, when I decided, spurred by my newly embraced
pragmatist ideology, to beg that they all put their minds for 5
I am a member of such a library thru my emeritus status and even so, about
half the stuff I look for is behind some sort of a paywall. Many of the
major publishers are busily cutting off their own noses to spite their
faces, and they've got their noses pretty much level to their faces by now.
Roger,
You never favored us with a comment on these pieces. Are you speaking to us
as an evolutionist or as a contact lens wearer.
As a drinker of Santa Fe tap water, I thought the following author comment
was a bit unnerving.
Acanthamoeba spp. are ubiquitous in tap water (2,5),
Dear FRIAM,
I thought, at the very minimum, this might amuse some of you, and that, at the
maximum, some of you might have something useful to say to my friends in china.
Steve?
[O]ur colleague Mark,… volunteered to take us out to get Chinese
telephones. We don’t have much use here
, on way to their ultimate destination of uniting with the supreme
Lord, the Brahman. Pick up your weapon and fight that is what is ordained to
you. Do not think of the consequences.
Note the delicious youness which permeates the Gita
Sarbajit
On 10/2/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
But surely, Sarbarjit, your post is contaminated with the illusion of
YOU-ness. As long as you are detached from him, you cannot propound
anything .. etc., right? You will never attain peace as long as you see
Russ as a YOU.
Right?
N
-Original Message-
From:
Dear Jess and Caleb,.
So, we are in hartford with the free wifi, warm and dry, and our plane is on
time. In such moment of enhanced mortality, it washes over me that neither
of you knows the name of our Lawyer. It Peter Ziomek and he lives in
Amherst. He aint much of a lawyer but he has the
http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/ and the courses I teach
_
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
wrote:
If it is true that,
Russ believes that his old and broken down motorcycle can take him from A
to B, but he
/ doubters.
Sarbajit
On 9/26/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
If it is true that,
Russ believes that his old and broken down motorcycle can take him
from A to B, but he doesn't have faith that it will
Can it also be true that Russ doubt whether his ... motorcycle can
Darwinism only says that the least prolific will be eliminated. It says
nothing about degeneracy, unless, of course profligacy is defined as
advanced. Spencer was the social Darwinist, not Darwin. In fact, it was
SPENCER, who coined the survival of the fittest, I believe.
N
From:
motivation. If she had to think and decide,she'd
be too slow to save the rider. Needs to be a deeper level trigger.
Tory
On Sep 24, 2012, at 8:51 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Dean,
Yes,
. Agreed. However, on my understanding of the term faith (i.e., =
belief), Ms Stem has beliefs
DOES
Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] faith
Yikes. I might just have to break tradition and attend an actual FRIAM
meeting. Has there ever been an actual fist fight at a FRIAM meeting?
-Doug
Sent from Android.
On Sep 24, 2012 9:17 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
wrote:
Hi Russ
, September 24, 2012 11:49 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Turning into butter, was RE: faith
You say that as if butter was a bad thing.
On Sep 24, 2012 9:43 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
wrote:
You're the first other person I have
think children aren't allowed to read that any more, but having a
childhood during colonial times, I was allowed.
Pamela
On Sep 24, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Steve,
Do you remember in what childhood story, things run round and round a tree
until they turn
faith that it will
On 9/24/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Russ,
I take your point, but still, I would have a hard time composing a
sentence of the form, Russ has faith in X but he doesn't believe in
it. Can you compose such a sentence for me?
N
From: friam
Robert,
Your model of intellectual life - don't speak until you look it up and shut
up afterwards - is different from mine (obviously). I am more of a
protestant in such matters: In matters of philosophy, each person has
ultimately to figure it out for himself.
Whatever SEP might
D.
Argumentative positioning aside, you could not get out your drive way if you
actually believed any of that. In the first place, the world isn't
interested in harming you. That's the hardest part. REAllizing that they
don't love you AND they don't hate you. THEY JUST DON'T GIVE A S-T.
Eric,
Peirce enthusiastically ridicules the notion of a tentative belief. My guess
is that he would also ridicule the notion that we can decide to believe in
something. But there is some sort of experience of local belief, I think. In
context A I believe X whereas in contest B I
Steve,
Cynics are disappointed idealists. Somewhere, way beyond all that, is
Wisdom. N
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Steve Smith
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 11:34 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject:
Steve,
Do you remember in what childhood story, things run round and round a tree
until they turn into butter?
Those things weren't monkeys, weasels, OR MULBERRY BUSHES.
Nick
Hint: No teacher would read this story to a child, nowadays.
-Original Message-
From:
Dean,
Yes, .. Agreed. However, on my understanding of the term faith (i.e., =
belief), Ms Stem has beliefs . DOES beliefs, if you will . about the world.
It believes, for instance, that nothing can be moved unless something else
is fixed.
Smart, your lady stem. But faithful, all the
Robert,
For a pragmatist, the meaning of faith is in what it gets you do, not in its
content in the ordinary sense. So, under this understanding, Faith would
apply to behavior of people within institutions and faith would apply to
less public acts. I guess.
N
-Original Message-
Hi Russ,
Whatever SEP may have to say, we still have to talk to one another, right?
Notice that all these meanings have to do with God. If SEP is correct, a
person not concerned with god in one way or another would never use the
word. Do you put faith in the advice of your stockbroker?
You're the first other person I have ever met who confessed to having read
Little Black Sambo.
Thank you for that, Steve. [sigh]
Nick
-Original Message-
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Steve Smith
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 11:18
Russ,
Well, as was observed the last time we went 'round on this topic, you have
faith in your powers of induction: faith that the world is the sort of a
place where floors don't evaporate after several years of not evaporating.
Do you remember the car that drove off the severed bridge in
Well, it would be nice to answer that action on our personal moral
principles should cease, when it breaks the law.
The trouble is, there are laws and there are laws.
The Protestant idea that each of us has a direct and personal obligation to
the law, no matter what a duly appointed
Arlo,
Well, I am not really man enough to say anything like that, but if I were, I
think I would more likely say that feelings are the derivative of actions.
When we speak of intentions we are actually instantiating actions.
Velocity at an instant is a kind of non-sense which modern science
Steve,
As for the tongue in cheek, this is my best guess. Doug thought that Arlo's
statement was a reduction ad absurdum. In fact, it stated very clearly the
kind of thing I had in mind. You will pardon the expression. Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com
I agree, here, that faking X is one organizational level above doing x. What
tempts us to error is the notion that mental states are instantaneous, rather
smeared over time and space.
I sometimes wonder what the relation is between how we think about cogntions ….
Thoughts, feelings,
Robots do lip service quite handily.
We value your call.
Nick
-Original Message-
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Sarbajit Roy
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:22 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject:
Sarbajit,
Given your range of experiences with the religious, I am curious for your
reflections on atheism as a religion. When push comes to shove, are we
atheists any the less religious, in the very broadest senses of that term?
In what ways?
Nick
-Original Message-
From:
, newer generations are not interested in philosophical
systems any more or artificial religious categories.
There are too many other things going on in their lives.
On 9/17/12, Nicholas Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Sarbajit,
Given your
/17/12, Nicholas Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Sarbajit,
Given your range of experiences with the religious, I am curious for
your reflections on atheism as a religion. When push comes to shove,
are we atheists any the less religious
in the realm of Devils ... and your name is very
apt.
Sarbajit
On 9/17/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Sarbajit,
I think I believe that everybody HAS a philosophical system. The
variables are how explicit it is and whether the holder of the system
is capable
to a supercomputer where he starts
getting pseudo-gibberish possibly from God.
In sum: Philosophy falls in the realm of Devils ... and your name is very apt.
Sarbajit
On 9/17/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Sarbajit,
I think I believe that everybody HAS
generations are not interested in
philosophical systems any more or artificial religious categories.
There are too many other things going on in their lives.
On 9/17/12, Nicholas Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Sarbajit,
Given your range
Glen Wrote:
. In so doing, I accused Nick of having asserted that faith underlies all
reality. I expected him to evolve during the course of the conversation to
explain what actions constitute faith. If we got that far, then we'd have
Nick's physical theory of everything! Those actions
zombies. Your notion that there is a single type of zombie has long been
discredited. Here's a handy chart that I hope can inform your discussion.
http://www.geekologie.com/image.php?path=/2010/10/05/zombie-chart-full.jpg
-R
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp
zombieness:
the non-zombie is mad or pig-headed or over-familiar with solipsism. Or a
combination of all three.
-R
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Robert,
snipSo, there can be no grounds (that I can think off), for denying a
non-zombie's
] faith, zombies, and crazy people (was America and the
Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist)
On 09/14/2012 06:56 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
For me, consciousness is a point of view, and any telic system has a
point of view. Zombies are telic systems, no?
That's a great question. I
Are physicists guilty of Hiroshima? Let's say the Japanese had won the war
and Oppenheimer had been hauled before the World Criminal Court in The
Hague. Would he have been guilty of Crimes Against Humanity? You are a
judge on that Court. Write the opinion.
N
From:
Oh, ok. I have to stop heckling and take this seriously. DAMN!
First, I yield to no one on this list in my atheism. I have been an atheist
longer than most of you have been alive. So there! My FATHER was an
atheist, my mother was an agnostic. (For anybody on this list who might
have been
Roger,
I am always stunned by your ability to mine the web for wonderful stuff.
I happen to have the Peirce paper sitting on my table, so let me draw his
argument out a bit further. Piece describes 4 ways of fixing belief . This
one he calls authority. The two others he disapproves of
Here we go again, indeed.
Blind faith is a redundancy, right? All faith is blind. We do not have
faith in what we doubt. As Peirce would say: Doubt is not a guest. We do
not entertain it. When it moves in, it sleeps in our bed, eats at our
table, goes to work with us, and listens to
If your conversations go on past the first of October, I would love to join
you. N
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Victoria Hughes
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 2:42 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re:
fairly and well conducted, we reach a point where we
have to appeal to a proposition we cannot justify.
In haste,
Nick,
Nicholas Thompson wrote at 09/14/2012 11:31 AM:
But the problem here is not faith, itself, which always lies somewhere
down there amongst the turtles, but the rapidity
.
But thank you for once again taking such an interest in my own particular
world view!
--Doug
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Here we go again, indeed.
Blind faith is a redundancy, right? All faith is blind. We do not have
faith
Ok, owen. Let's say I put on a bomb vest, put my FRIAM T-shirt on over it,
and blew myself up and 30 soldiers at the military base where that poor
schmuk Bradley Manning is being held. Let's say, I leave an email circular
claiming that I did it in the name of a Free Internet. The reporter
Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The
Economist
Nicholas Thompson wrote at 09/14/2012 12:18 PM:
gepr wrote:
It always surprises me the extent to which people (yes! people in
general) over-simplify complex things. One of my pet peeves
I dunno. It's not a bad speech
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/07/remarks-president-dem
ocratic-national-convention . Have you read it? N
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 11:25
in Libya | The
Economist
Ok, I'll bite.
Why?
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Doesn't the same apply to the drinking of wine?
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Douglas Roberts
Sent: Thursday
and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The
Economist
So, wine is the root cause of all our problems? I think not. I can handle
my wine as well as I can handle my religion.
Better, even, given that my religion handling needs are nil.
On Sep 13, 2012 10:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp
] PRES12_WTA Prospectus - The University of Iowa
Well, Nick. A google search on Big Dig Corruption returned the following:
About 911,000 results (0.18 seconds)
Take a few minutes to educate yourself on this particular topic.
--Doug
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp
Eric,
I am no friend of Romney, but, whatever else you might say about the big dig,
it rescued Boston from the utter destruction imposed by the central artery
project, reconnecting historic sites in the city, and reintegrating the city in
many ways. I have only been back to the city a few
Eric,
I have not read the original article, but still your comments caught my
attention.
As argued in this article http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/1/9.html , the
disassociation of predictive and explanatory power seems misguided. I suppose
a statistical function of many
Thanks, everybody.
I realize that most of you have day jobs and don't have time to be teachers
in my self-designed Elder-Hostel Education program, but if you do have a
moment, could you answer the following questions?
In these questions, the words cool and warm will have a technical
, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
So, somebody asked me, in my role as a weather nerd, how come the nitrogen
in the atmosphere doesnt all fall to the bottom on still nights and
suffocate us all. I asked the question of
stupid-answers-to-stupid-questions-asked-by-stupid-people.com
12, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
So, somebody asked me, in my role as a weather nerd, how come the nitrogen
in the atmosphere doesnt all fall to the bottom on still nights and
suffocate us all. I asked the question of
stupid-answers-to-stupid-questions
ProfDave,
Ask your guest about Hesse's theory of metaphor in scientific explanation.
Also, about Peirce. And then take good notes. I wish I could be there.
By the way, Everybody on this list should know not to bet against Dave West
on any matter relating to Wisconsin Politics.
[sigh]
I am struggling with my new MIFI box from Verizon and I am wondering if
there is a standard download/upload task I can give it to see if I am
actually getting faster service than through dial up. It feels AWFULLY slow
right now. I am in the mosquito infested bog in massashusetts about 3
miles
Steve,
I am sorry I cannot be there. I am in the bog. Santa Fe should be grateful
for what you-all have accomplished in this time. I look forward to your
next re-incarnation, whatever it might be.
Hugs all around,
Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com
I found the article horrifying. Is anybody old enough to remember a sixties
research project with a cute name which centered around a long running debate
concerning whether setting off an abomb in the upper atmosphere would
obliterate the vanallen belts, destroy the ozone layer, or just set
Bruce,
I think you conceded too much in this message.
In the previous message you wrote
eventually Einstein found a deep 'explanation' for gravity
in terms of the effects that matter has on space itself
But grant writes:
Did he not theorize that gravity is a force that
Thanks Bruce
This obviously will require careful study. I will try to respond when I get
to the Other Side and have had a few days to get used to living in The Bog.
Nick
-Original Message-
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Bruce Sherwood
John, I haven't yet digested Bruce's comments above, nor entirely what you
have written here, but I want to clarify one point.
When somebody speaks of space being warped one has in mind one of those
diagrams where the Cartesian coordinates are bent, right? In other words,
we are using our
Didn't Newton feel that it was a bit magical? I need to be instructed,
here.
N
-Original Message-
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of John Kennison
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:11 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
So, what did Newton mean when he said I make no hypotheses.
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Russ Abbott
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 1:39 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in
Well, in my psychology, the answer to such a question takes the form of,
what is the larger pattern of which my dumb stuff is a part?
N
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Gillian Densmore
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 6:09 PM
To: The Friday Morning
, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Well, in my psychology, the answer to such a question takes the form of,
what is the larger pattern of which my dumb stuff is a part?
N
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Gillian Densmore
Sent: Friday
Well, On Peirce’s account (yes I am still reading Peirce) Truth (or “solved”)
is like “settled law”. It could come undone any time, but usually doesn’t.
(Actually, I have that wrong. Truth is what wouldn’t come undone, but, of
course, we never live to be sure that that’s what we got.
Hi, Carl,
Been thinking about this “tech problem” – “science problem” distinction.
Can Eric tell the difference? Can I tell the difference? Can Carl tell the
difference? Is engineering the same as science? Is control the same as
understanding? Jochem: Is it time for me to go back
what
psychological theories have been disproven?
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of
Nicholas Thompson [nickthomp...@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:18 AM
To: c...@plektyx.com; 'The Friday Morning Applied
you still can't remember by
name correctly ;-)
Jochen
Sent from Android
Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Hi, Carl,
Been thinking about this “tech problem” – “science problem” distinction.
Can Eric tell the difference? Can I tell the difference? Can Carl
Russ,
This is, of course, the pragmatic[ist] understanding of solved.
Everybody has quit looking for a better solution.
Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Russ Abbott
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:20 PM
To: The Friday Morning
Doug,
I think it's a form of play. Possibly a form that is not your cup of tea.
Intellectual play and science are alike, in my world, because both explore
contradictions in our ways of thinking of things. Oxymorons, like
psychological science or thinking machine or conscious animal.
Omigosh! The month-long exile is over! And I only broke it once.
I can actually live a whole month without mouthing off in an annoying way on
FRIAM.
Trouble is, now I can't remember what I think about anything. My basic
position is that progress in psychology has been stymied by the allure
Hi, Robert,
I find the local medical situation terrifying. My daughter had to be
admitted to St. V. for an emergency a couple of X-masses ago, and I swear to
god there were blood splatters on the wall behind her bed in her room. I
am fighting allergies so bad right now they are preventing
through electronic
medical records, you can smile. Wryly.
On Apr 23, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Hi, Robert,
I find the local medical situation terrifying. My daughter had to be
admitted to St. V. for an emergency a couple of X-masses ago, and I swear to
god
Offline
I just stumbled on this message that was never answered. It was in RED so I
figured I better answer it. See below.
In fact, many warrior groups kidnap the women AND children from other
groups. Or even take the men as slaves. This would seem to be stupid from
in inclusive
of induction and all the intricacies involving the
philosophy of induction as a thought process does not meet requirement
number 1, above.
--Doug
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Hi doug, and Bruce
I realize that the following
of induction and all the intricacies involving the
philosophy of induction as a thought process does not meet requirement
number 1, above.
--Doug
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Hi doug, and Bruce
I realize that the following was hundreds
to the wall about,
either to say that it is correct, OR that it is a correct understanding of
Peirce.
Have to bail on this for a few days.
Best,
Nick
From: Russ Abbott [mailto:russ.abb...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 2:06 PM
To: Nicholas Thompson
Cc: The Friday Morning
Hi, everybody,
Somebody (whom I respect greatly) has eldered me, writing to say that I am
in danger of driving everybody nuts with my new found interest in the logic
of scientific inquiry. So I will give it a rest, and lurk for a month. If
anybody wants to talk off line about any of the
/
_
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Hi doug, and Bruce
I realize that the following was hundreds of words deep in a verbose email
message, and so it is understandable that you did not respond, but I am
curious about your
:05 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Dear Doug,
Thanks, Doug. No offence taken, but . none of this is a game to me.
Thinking about stuff, getting to the bottom of what I and others are
thinking, is everything for me. It's way up the hierarchy from sex and food.
We have
or free
will. I just need to focus on my grand design and its purpose.
Sarbajit
On 4/6/12, Nicholas Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Dear Bruce,
You wrote
Uh, does there have to be a reason? I'm interested just because I am
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On 4/4/12, Nicholas Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
So. In short. Has everybody BUT me gone to some toggle in Google
and in Firefox and in I.E. and done something
I go back to the original question I asked Owen. Why are these fantasies
INTERESTING?. Now, quickly, I have to admit, they don't capture my
imagination that well. But I also have to admit that I firmly believe that
NOBODY is interested in anything for nothing. IE, wherever there is an
interest
of science. There
are many variants of philistinism, and of engagement.
Bruce
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
I go back to the original question I asked Owen. Why are these fantasies
INTERESTING?. Now, quickly, I have to admit, they don't
the meaning of
INTERESTING is too.
Robert C
On 4/4/12 2:55 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
I go back to the original question I asked Owen. Why are these fantasies
INTERESTING?. Now, quickly, I have to admit, they don't capture my
imagination that well. But I also have to admit that I firmly believe
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