[lbo-talk] Finding the elephant in the room

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jul 16 14:19:49 PDT 2005


Doug Henwood wrote:
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> it's not the whole story.

Some day a mathematician is going to win a Nobel prize in something or other by arguing profoundly that the denominator is not the whole story of fractions.

This phrase -always, not just sometimes -- is in practice (and probably in intention) a way to abort discusion because scoring stupid points about the superiority of denominators to numerators is far more entertaining.

Carrol



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