[grey_whiskers]

Coyote, was it you who was in a discussion of this list with RightWhale within the past few days?

I believe he wanted to use the definitions of someone else (Whitehead)?

How did that conversation end up?

Cheers!

[RightWhale]

The Whitehead thing is on hold until somebody actually reads some of Whitehead's books. All I have so far is that Quine thought Whitehead's math work was serious and that others thought Whitehead's Theory of Relativity is quite a bit different from Einstein's and just as good as well as eliminating the problem of bifurcation of nature. Since I view the problem of bifurcation of nature as the most serious issue facing us I am greatly impressed that Whitehead was able to get around it. Then, too, we have to decide if we will use the mathematician Whitehead or the philosopher Whitehead that he became about age 61 when most scientists are taking a good look at retirement.