Dear Colleagues, Jon Z and Frank have me reading Cormac McCarthy. I have started with his last book, Stella Maris (?Star of the Sea?). It is the dialogue that each of us has always wished we had with our psychiatrist . It is witty, often funny, makes lots of references to Los Alamos, is always engaging, and sometimes deep. I am enjoying it and may have to read it a second time.
In the following lines, the patient character expresses an opinion on the central issue of Pragmat[ic]ism. *Patient:] …The world you live in is shored some up by a collection of agreements. Is that something you think about? The hope is that the truth of the world somehow lies in the common experience of it. Of course the history of science and mathematics and even philosophy is a good bit at odds with this notion. Innovation and discovery by definition war against the common understanding. One should be wary. What do you think? [pp 91-2]* I am not going to comment. I just thought you might like to have the quote to mull over. Nick
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