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- From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- Subject: Re: Schools, philosophy of science, epistemology
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:01:30 GMT
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- In article <6owNXB1w165w@quake.sylmar.ca.us>, betsy@quake.sylmar.ca.us
- (Betsy Speicher) writes:
-
- >Any resemblance between S. Grossman and a real, nice, reasonable
- >Objectivist like me is purely coincidental.
- >
- >I welcome suggestions as to how Grossman might be persuaded to
- >pick on somebody else's philosophy.
-
- SG Horse Guddshaw looked down the wrong end of a blackened Remington
- shotgun barrel. He gulped and smiled. A bead of sweat rolled down his forehead.
- The fat man spat on Guddshaw's shoes. He waved the bartender over. "One beer,"
- Smitty. "Just one beer." A second bead of sweat rolled down Guddshaw's
- forehead. The gunsel at the other end of the shotgun frowned and tensed his
- arm...
-
- It would be nice if my intellect were necessary to deal with others'
- posts but the level of "argument" and even insult is, for the most part, so low
- that I can let my subconscious do the work.
-
- "I don't get tough. My lawyer does." [Faye Dunaway, _Chinatown_]
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- "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- AYN RAND
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- Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASSD.EDU>
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