Well, one thing for sure, my mind was a lot more impressionable in my early 20's than it is now at 65 :). Regardless, I found Weyl's writings to coincide a lot more with my way of thinking than any of the other philosophers whom I read at the time. Coincidentally, your middle name would not be Proteus by any chance :). Regards - Mike
-----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Charles P. Steinmetz Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:28 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Beginner's time reference Mike wrote: >You guys obviously missed Hermann Weyl's writings, specifically his >"Space-Time-Matter" and "Philosophy of >Mathematics" * * * That was mainly why earlier I expressed >my opinion simply as "bullshit" Not at all. It's just that for all of Weyl's brilliant contributions to mathematics, philosophers generally hold an opinion similar to the one you expressed of his unfortunate forays into philosophy (as well as for the phenomenology of Husserl and Cassirer, upon which Weyl's views were based). Best regards, Charles _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
