Re: ....and the beat goes on and on and on...

From: William Benzon (bbenzon@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 17:39:44 GMT

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    on 1/22/01 9:27 AM, Wade T.Smith at wade_smith@harvard.edu wrote:

    > On 01/22/01 08:08, Joe E. Dees said this-
    >
    >> I was
    >> correct when I branded you as an unthinking zombic memebot of
    >> the lowest order, in cognitive thrall to pernicious error.
    >
    > Hell, nobody's perfect.
    >
    > IMHO, Chris is an (archetypal) astrologer, and everything he says will
    > work in the proper context and setting, there being a very nice mix of
    > generality and specificity to all of it.
    >
    > I'm willing to enjoy what I see probable about it all.
    >
    > But, in the wider cases of Theories of Everything, how many wrongs do
    > make a right?
    >

    Such theories come in two flavors: Those that achieve generality by ignoring
    details and those that achieve it by paying close attention to novel
    patterns of detail. The former are worthless, the latter are valuable.

    BB 

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