[lbo-talk] Chuck's Cassirer posts

[Eubulides]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Charles A. Grimes wrote:
>> My general answer is that almost nobody in antro, soc, pysch,
>> philos, linguistics... bio look outside themselves for answers. For
>> example where do ordering systems originate? You ask each of these
>> fields and they give you a different answer. Nobody seems to remember
>> that the natural and physical worlds are highly ordered places long
>> before we came along. It might be a good idea to look at the world,
>> rather than inside the foundations of these fields...
>>
> Or as Aristotle put it, "Nature _is_ order."
>
> Joanna

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http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2003/2003-April/009477.html

"Chaos was born first and after her came Gaia
the broad breasted, the firm seat of all
the immortals who hold the peaks of snowy Olympos,
and misty Tartaros in the depths of broad-pathed earth
and Eros, the fairest of the deathless gods;
he unstrings the limbs and subdues both mind
and sensible thought in the breasts of all gods and all men"
[ Hesiod, Theogony Verses 116-122, Athanassakis' translation]

http://www.springerlink.com/content/rj965x6117714201/

Randomness and perceived-randomness in evolutionary biology
Journal	Synthese
William C. Wimsatt
Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago, USA

http://xoomer.alice.it/baldazzi69/papers/mermin_moon.pdf

Is the Moon There When Nobody Looks? Reality and the quantum theory
http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~mermin/homepage/ndm.html

Onward Megarians, woot woot!

E