[lbo-talk] Baby thoughts

[Eubulides]

Shane Mage wrote:
> 
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Dysboulides wrote:
>> James Heartfield wrote:
>> The idea of nature changes, but nature does not.
>> =========
>> Therefore the climate does not, therefore no global warming.
>> The platonic rot still runs deep.
>> Sigh.
> 
> Whence this weird notion that Plato regarded the world perceived by the 
> senses, the realm  of "all that is begotten, born, and dies," as 
> unchanging in any of its aspects?
> 
> Shane Mage

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Uh, neither James nor I mentioned the world perceived by the senses.

Would you settle for Parmenides, then?

Let's get rid of the idea of nature and replace it with the idea of 
quibble; eternal quibbling is our lot, without even a trace of Sysyphean 
drama.