Read my e-mail more carefully.
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Roberts
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies
You might not have been sarcastic enough, Ken. I fear that we are about to
be launched on a round of non-specific philosophical verbiage about
reductionism.
Oh, what the heck. Let me help kick this one off:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism
Or, better yet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apeiron_(cosmology)
Gag.
</sarcasm>
--Doug
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Kenneth Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Günther,
Examining the English language, reductionism is an ingrained concept. For
example, there are only two kinds of people in the world. Me and you (you
being the collective you all, akin to the French vous).
For the literalists out there, I am being somewhat sarcastic.
Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Günther Greindl
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 8:34 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies
>
> Hi,
>
> > This doesn't mean strictly remaining with restraints
> belonging under
> > the heading of that horrible word "reductionism".
>
> Why do you think that the word is horrible? (be specific please ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Günther
>
> --
> Günther Greindl
> Department of Philosophy of Science
> University of Vienna
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
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