Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id BAA18624 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 1 May 2002 01:32:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20020501002731.68336.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:27:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Trupeljak Ozren <ozren_trupeljak@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: teleology and language To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <B00247A8-5C8D-11D6-9829-003065B9A95A@harvard.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
--- "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 05:21 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
>
> > The things we can do with language today vastly exceeds what we
> could
> > do with it a mere hundred years ago.
>
> I can't see that. What is your proof?
>
> I read greek poetry that says just as much to me as anything I read
> today.
>
> Walt Whitman didn't have as much savvy with english as we do now?
>
> - Wade
>
Counterpoint to your specific examples: just try to prove Fermat's last
theorem by using Greek mathematics. :)
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