On May 13, 5:13 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I'm not trying to beat the original Poster up for making an error, but > demonstrating just how badly off track you can get by trying to reason > from first principles (as Plato may have done) instead of empirical study > (as Aristotle or Bacon may have done). Knowledge of how things actually > are beats understanding of how they ought to be every time.
Nicely put, I may have to copy & paste this into another thread here... I always did have a soft spot for William James. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
