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To: RightWhale
Our metaphysics prof promised to award an F on any test paper that used a strawman.

Mine had a particular dislike for any statement that starts with "It is intuitively obvious that..."

24 posted on 11/16/2006 9:36:12 AM PST by seowulf
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To: seowulf

We were still on Chapter Two of our metaphysics text at the end of the semester. But, it seems that was not a bad place to be and was good preparation for metaphysics debates on FR. We got to Theseus' Ship. Not beyond Theseus' Ship. Theseus had moves; he could have done well on 'Dancing with the Stars,' maybe another Emmit.


25 posted on 11/16/2006 9:41:27 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: seowulf; RightWhale; SunkenCiv
Cantor had a problem with his colleagues when he asserted that their are levels of infinity,....countable and uncountable...aleph zero...and aleph one...

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor

29 posted on 11/16/2006 9:52:01 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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