Cox &Plato (was Re: [lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test)

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Thu Aug 10 19:36:50 PDT 2006



> Plato claimed that a mathematician wasn't a mathematician when he
>was committing an error.

More of his perpetual idiotic hostility to the fountainhead of all philosophy. Plato claimed no such thing and I defy anyone to provide a citation showing that he did.

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)



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