[lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus

[// ravi]

On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
>> On 2/16/2012 10:18 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>>> Absolutely. For one thing, you have to struggle with reality...rather than just manipulating symbols.
>> 
>> Any good writer constantly struggles with reality...by manipulating symbols.  (What is Capital Vol. 1?  Chopped liver?)
> 
> Really. To appreciate manual labor we don't have to disparage the mental kind.

What is disparaging about manipulating symbols? What are logicians and theoretical mathematicians? Chopped liver? :-)

	—ravi