[lit-ideas] Re: Erin's Course Dilemma

  • From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:47:59 +0900

On 2005/01/18, at 19:24, Robert Paul wrote:

> "Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon 
> them by
> our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, _and_ 
> by the
> immobility of our conceptions of them."

Conception? Or perception?

Is it not a principal lesson of modern science that what we take to be 
immobility is only change at a pace to slow for unaided perception to 
grasp.

John McCreery

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