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- From: mitsu@nic.cerf.net (Mitsuharu Hadeishi)
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- Subject: Re: Report on Philosophies of Physicists
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- Date: 5 Sep 92 04:45:20 GMT
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- In article <5399@dove.nist.gov> gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan) writes:
- > Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent.
-
- I could speak about it, and go on and on, but I don't think
- I have time to do justice to the subject matter, and if I said just
- a little about it I believe it could well do more harm than good.
- However, anyone interested in such things I heartily recommend
- that they take a look at these other source texts (Wittgenstein's
- in particular is quite good if you prefer a Western-style discursive
- presentation rather than the rather intutive presentations used
- by many Eastern philosophers. Unless you're willing to suspend
- disbelief, i.e., assume that the sometimes seemingly nonsensical
- things that Eastern philosophers often say actually have some basis,
- then I would recommend the Western readings, particularly Wittgenstein,
- which, although also difficult to understand, are more gradual and
- less "obscure". That is, you can at least understand each sentence,
- even if the paragraph might be rather strange-sounding; Eastern
- philosophers are fond of making even single sentences almost impenetrably
- difficult to fathom.)
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- Mitsu
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