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- From: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk (Leo Smith)
- Subject: Re: Buddhism & Science
- Reply-To: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:34:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.838100@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: <TORKEL.93Jan3160554@bugs.sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
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- >In article <memo.837515@cix.compulink.co.uk> shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk
- >(Leo Smith) writes:
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- > >What is the relevance of this to Science and Logic. Immense. Logic is
- > >the glue that binds the conceptual objects of our worldview together.
- > >Science is the process of adding to this logical structure.
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- > I'm afraid you've been sniffing the wrong glue - some kind of WWI model
- >airplane stuff. Science is not really the process of adding to these
- >gluey structures.
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- Those afficionados of the 'Peter Principle' will hereby recognise a
- classic symptom of a poster operating well into his level of
- incompetence - the *Utter Irrelevancy Syndrome*.
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- Thank you Torkel. Where would we be without your priceless
- contributions.
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