On 14 February 2014 07:24, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/13/2014 1:04 AM, LizR wrote: > > On 13 February 2014 21:38, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If I reported that there was a flying pig, wouldn't comp just explain, >> "That's the way arithmetic looks from inside."? >> >> Why? No. Not at all. >> You must (using G & Co.) looks at the way arithmetic looks from inside, >> and if you find the flying pig, then yes, you can say that comp explains >> the flying pig, but if you see a white rabbit instead (in the arithmetic), >> you can say that comp does not explain the flying pig, and might be false >> in case you don't find the white rabbit in nature. >> > > This sounds like my sort of science! > > "One pill makes you larger... And one pill makes you small..." > > It's unfortunate that the white rabbit with the frock coat and pocket > watch from Alice in Wonderland became shorthand for 'unreal things', and > then was further shortened to just "white rabbit" since, in fact, white > rabbits are quite common and kept as pets. > > Well as you can tell from my quote I, at least, was assuming the Alice one!
I think "white rabbit" in this sort of discussion is shorthand for "a white rabbit with a pocket watch appearing spontaneously from nowhere, muttering about how late he is" .... or words to that effect. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
