Blah - gotta hit STOP faster.
[If you imagine you are 'studying Econ' - you might -at very least- begin from an understanding of WHY that topic is permanently Guaranteed to remain: extremely IFFY - as regards any concept of that popularly abused idea of there being CAUSALITY! of any knowable sort.]
Despite ChrisR's heroic, meticulous and time-consumingly linked Clue-by-fours: it is pointless !=[*], with you.
You are the textbook-proof Example that, a course in Boolean Logic is as unrelated to possession of a working sense of Reason as :: [toughie] maybe..
possession of a Bible guarantees some knowledge of metaphysics?
possession of a car " " " physics?
possession of an egg " " " ovulation?
possession of a brain " " " a mind?
possession of a mouth " " " sentient sentences?
Your obsession with 'fact'oids "proving" some 'theory' you've recently had PowerPointed into cache-memory - in a class intended to force-feed MBA-sounding words into a group suffering from National attention span deficit:
merely clarifies your confusion about what fact, theory or process might even mean/connote/suggest... in human mentation. When explored to any depth, none of these concepts (nor many other common ones) long avoid circularity in their cross-pollination of "definitions".
You are in philosophical territory and you didn't even see the Toll Booth -- that one saying:
GO READ, absorb, ponder, experiment: before your Visa can be stamped.
Regurgitating predigested pap, slogans especially re Econ !! - punctuated with sentences ending in? - is a sure way of obtaining new flights of Flame constructs.. from others with quite less patience than the estimable (and evidently Informed) ChrisR.
You are in Philosophy and you Want: Literalness at a 8 yo level. As always.
GO READ a couple hundred non-VB-related BOOKS (or any other \ufffd-stuff) from Aristotel to Zoroaster; digest, explore, train-from-scratch a whole regimentGrand Army of new neuronal connections and,
and...
Your Non-style perpetual [sick, broke, needy, unconscious-but-got-a-keyboard] mewling Pisses Me Off, at certain times. Especially These Times, as we wait to see the Verdict:
How many of The Murican Peepul are Just Like You cha cha cha ???
[incorrigible]
This just in, kid: the mere fact that it's written down and believed in by millions of simpletons does not make something true.
"This is not a book to be set aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Dorothy Parker
"Reality is that which, when you cease to believe, continues to exist."
Phillip K Dick
After personal optimization sets in, you have a population with very few abilities and a great many needs.
B Tilly, maybe
Edited by
Ashton
July 13, 2004, 08:38:30 PM EDT
Norman, Norman -n
[If you imagine you are 'studying Econ' - you might -at very least- begin from an understanding of WHY that topic is permanently Guaranteed to remain: extremely IFFY - as regards any concept of that popularly abused idea of there being CAUSALITY! of any knowable sort.]
Despite ChrisR's heroic, meticulous and time-consumingly linked Clue-by-fours: it is pointless !=[*], with you.
You are the textbook-proof Example that, a course in Boolean Logic is as unrelated to possession of a working sense of Reason as :: [toughie] maybe..
possession of a Bible guarantees some knowledge of metaphysics?
possession of a car " " " physics?
possession of an egg " " " ovulation?
possession of a brain " " " a mind?
possession of a mouth " " " sentient sentences?
Your obsession with 'fact'oids "proving" some 'theory' you've recently had PowerPointed into cache-memory - in a class intended to force-feed MBA-sounding words into a group suffering from National attention span deficit:
merely clarifies your confusion about what fact, theory or process might even mean/connote/suggest... in human mentation. When explored to any depth, none of these concepts (nor many other common ones) long avoid circularity in their cross-pollination of "definitions".
You are in philosophical territory and you didn't even see the Toll Booth -- that one saying:
GO READ, absorb, ponder, experiment: before your Visa can be stamped.
Regurgitating predigested pap, slogans especially re Econ !! - punctuated with sentences ending in? - is a sure way of obtaining new flights of Flame constructs.. from others with quite less patience than the estimable (and evidently Informed) ChrisR.
You are in Philosophy and you Want: Literalness at a 8 yo level. As always.
GO READ a couple hundred non-VB-related BOOKS (or any other ยต-stuff) from Aristotel to Zoroaster; digest, explore, train-from-scratch a whole regimentGrand Army of new neuronal connections and,
and...
Your Non-style perpetual [sick, broke, needy, unconscious-but-got-a-keyboard] mewling Pisses Me Off, at certain times. Especially These Times, as we wait to see the Verdict:
How many of The Murican Peepul are Just Like You cha cha cha ???
[incorrigible]
This just in, kid: the mere fact that it's written down and believed in by millions of simpletons does not make something true.
"This is not a book to be set aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Dorothy Parker
"Reality is that which, when you cease to believe, continues to exist."
Phillip K Dick
After personal optimization sets in, you have a population with very few abilities and a great many needs.
B Tilly, maybe
