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At 01:30 PM 08/03/2002 -0700, you wrote: >I thought it happens when your wife is a socialist and you actually pay some >attention to what she says. Hmmm. Reminds me of when I used to be married to a Trotskyist. Since he was so busy doing political work and thinking political thoughts, he never h

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Juries are very much the hoi polloi you are so >contemptuous of and yet, according to many, they do a very creditable job. > I have been very impressed with the juries who have served before my judge. jks _ Send and receive Hotmail

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Title: RE: [PEN-L:28899] Re: Re: Re: Expertise and Vanguard Parties Doug writes: >And what about that word "liberal"? It carries with it the now largely forgotten modifier "Manchester," no? An atomized competitive system with no real room for notions of social solidarity.< there are two ma

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-0700 > >Is the fact that "juries find facts while judges determine the law" set in >a >stone that someone brought down from Mount Sinai? No, but it's a rule of American law. whatever happened to >juries that reject unjust laws? It happens, We don't know about it unless the jurors say somethin

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> >Yes I do object. With regard to reserach, neither I nor anyone here wants >to be told what to work on. Now, there is some democratization possible in >the decision to fund kinds of projects. The legislature can (and does) >decide to alot a certain amount of funds to, say, cancer research. O

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Devine, James wrote: >I understand that Windows software doesn't run as well on Macs, too. .

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Suckers Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:13 PM Subject: [PEN-L:28809] Re: Re: RE: Expertise > > "science does not think" -- martin heidegger > > (thought i would throw that one out and see wha

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> >In a message dated 7/29/02 1:49:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > Of course, in politics, the main body of "experts" > > >is the revolutionary party guiding society. > > > > > > > > > Gaak. That is exactly where there and can be no expertise, just >politic

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- Original Message - From: "Justin Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > if so, is > >that form of truth meaningful in a general context? > > What does that mean? There is one one form of truth, which is, as Aristotle > said long ago, to say of that which is, that it is,a nd that which is

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> >if i may say something as the resident slow thinker: things are >whizzing by at a good speed on this thread but it seems to me >that certain things are not clear (at least to me!). the examples >and analysis (offered by michael p. and others) seems to touch >upon the dangers of letting experts

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In a message dated 7/29/02 1:49:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Of course, in politics, the main body of "experts" > >is the revolutionary party guiding society. > > > > > Gaak. That is exactly where there and can be no expertise, just politics. > When will

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Title: RE: [PEN-L:28811] Re: RE: Re: RE: Expertise > "Could you please describe in plain English the curtailment > of my liberties?" > > Ian you have the right to remain silent... Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine  

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if i may say something as the resident slow thinker: things are whizzing by at a good speed on this thread but it seems to me that certain things are not clear (at least to me!). the examples and analysis (offered by michael p. and others) seems to touch upon the dangers of letting experts decid

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- Original Message - From: "Justin Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:52 PM Subject: [PEN-L:28819] Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Expertise > >"Could you please describe in plain English the curtailment of my >

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Thus I don't think you will be able >to write all laws and contracts in simple English; the effort of protecting >against other lawyers will prevent it if nothing else. Though I'm sure that >it can be done a lot of the time. A lot of law is technical and there are centuries of technical vocabul

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> >"Could you please describe in plain English the curtailment of my >liberties?" > >Ian The judge asked him what time it was Reuben said, Five to ten, The Judge said, That's exactly what you get --Hurricane (Bob Dylan) Or as we say in Shytown, you all fucked, cuz. jks _

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- Original Message - From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:04 PM Subject: [PEN-L:28806] Re: Re: RE: Expertise > I would add one other dimension to the list of problems that Scott > mention: arrogance that often leads to disas

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At 05:13 PM 07/29/2002 -0400, you wrote: >"science does not think" -- martin heidegger > >(thought i would throw that one out and see what kind of fish >it attracts ;-)). > > --ravi Hard to say without context; but normative science is more like a vetted bureaucratic procedure ...hence

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RE: [PEN-L:28795] Re: RE: Expertise - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 1:56 PM Subject: [PEN-L:28804] RE: Re: RE: Expertise Justin writes: >Legalese is awful. It's not even English. But there were striitings in America to make i

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> >I would add one other dimension to the list of problems that Scott >mention: arrogance that often leads to disaster for all concerned, which >is why I mentioned Dr. Lay. > -- > The Greeks had a word for that . . . . jks _ Send a

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>Expertise also occurs in some specific context. Today's industrial medicine >means that your doctor has at most 15 minutes to spend figuring out what >your problem is. Because of the current mind/body split ideology, chances >are that your doctor will never touch you (if he/she can help it).

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that expertise is sometimes nothing more than the artificial creation of hierarchy. On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 05:41:18PM +, Justin Schwartz wrote: > > : Expertise > >Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:29:06 -0700 > > > >Writing about expertise, I think that we should recall how Alfred Marshall > >revam

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: Expertise >Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:29:06 -0700 > >Writing about expertise, I think that we should recall how Alfred Marshall >revamped econ. education -- making it more mathematical, even though he >himself rejected the idea that math was useful for economics -- just to >make it more difficul

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Writing about expertise, I think that we should recall how Alfred Marshall revamped econ. education -- making it more mathematical, even though he himself rejected the idea that math was useful for economics -- just to make it more difficult for outsiders to comment on economic matters. -- Mich

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It's not I but Shane who is thinking in individualistic terms. My point is precisely that there is some tendency for thesystem to select Rehnquists who don't have to be told what to think. The federal judiciary is of course life-appointed and so more resistant to electoral pressures than many s

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Title: RE: [PEN-L:28737] Re: Re: Re: Expertise It's important to remember that "expertise" is not a one-dimensional variable. The practical and concrete knowledge of nurses and physician's assistants may be quite different in kind from the more theoretical and journal-based knowledge of MDs, s

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His problem wasn't bad advice. The problem of many other people was that they trusted his expertise. On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 02:26:06PM +, Justin Schwartz wrote: > > > > > >Of course, there is expertise, but experts can be very wrong -- especially > >if they go unchallenged. Ask Ken Lay.

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> >Of course, there is expertise, but experts can be very wrong -- especially >if they go unchallenged. Ask Ken Lay. > His problem wasn't bad expert advice. It was sheer crookedness. Of course there is bad expert advice. You wanna see my stock portfolio? It's a testament to bad expert advice

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Of course, there is expertise, but experts can be very wrong -- especially if they go unchallenged. Ask Ken Lay. On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:50:35AM +, Justin Schwartz wrote: > > > > > >The point of the book was that the orderlies and the like spend more time > >with the patient than the do