On Thu, January 8, 2015 9:36 pm, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> Occam's razor as used in general modern argument, outside technical
> Scholastic philosophy, is adequately summarized as, "The simplest
> explanation is to be preferred."
In which case it seems clear that bodies fall because they want to be on the ground. Universal gravitation? Surely an ens mutiplicatus if ever there was one. Somebody please explain to me how that 'gravity' thing is supposed to *work*, anyway.
-- Michael Smith
It is very easy for someone to be good at math; most of the time the kind of math that economists do would not impress a mathematician, but it is enough to impress people around them in the school of social sciences. -- Thomas Piketty