Re: the non-prose supplement

1998-02-06 Thread Gil Skillman
Gene writes: >None of these problems existed when we all did our analysis in Latin. Satis verborum. Pro Marxismus sine stercore tauri, Gilbertus Skillmanus

Re: the non-prose supplement

1998-02-06 Thread Eugene P. Coyle
>Doug writes, in response to my post, > >>So is the added value of the non-prose part of chaos theory inexpressible >>in prose? Are we talking, like, radical incommensurability here? > > >No, mostly precision and concision. An analogy: in the latest issue of >Doug's Left Business Observer, as is

Re: the non-prose supplement

1998-02-06 Thread Gil Skillman
Doug writes, in response to my post, >So is the added value of the non-prose part of chaos theory inexpressible >in prose? Are we talking, like, radical incommensurability here? No, mostly precision and concision. An analogy: in the latest issue of Doug's Left Business Observer, as is the case

the non-prose supplement

1998-02-05 Thread Doug Henwood
Gil Skillman wrote: >Well, the paragraph of English prose can't really "make this point just >fine", in the sense of really knowing what the point means, what it >necessitates, and what it rules out. Prose is best suited for indicating >possibilities and connections, perhaps allusively. It's mu