From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Sun 03 Nov 2002 - 16:01:24 GMT
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From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
> Since Wade dismisses both similarity and type-token construction in his
> insistence that every thing is a new thing, unrelated to what came
> before, he has, and can have, no distinctions between the first clumsy
> time a kid tries to ski and his/her Olympic-Gold-Medal-Winning slalom
> 20 years later, not any explanation for the quantum difference in skills
> displayed between them. If every performance is an entirely new
> performance, nothing can be learned or gained from what has gone
> before, and one's thousandth beer or ten thousandth cigarette is
> indistinguishable from one's first, in being, just like the others,
entirely
> unlike them.
Joe, isn 't this than not similar the to imaginary lines I brought up !?
In Wade's scheme, my lines would conclure with what he refers to
as ' new things '.
There are no such things like new things in evolution Wade argues,
so is the Space Shuttle a ' new thing ' or a product of human evolution
or is it just an evolution of shooting the arrow !?
There is learned/ gained info avaible, it is " inside " the arrow ( form/
use/ purpose/ speed/ which metal, what kind of wood) , each time
a new arrow is constructed or each time a similar form is constructed
the information/ behavior/ meaning goes along with it.
" Memorized " !?
Wade's scheme is a pyramid where in the modern days of our todays
world again, time after time the top (behavior), individualistic is
replaced.
I think !
Kenneth
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