[lit-ideas] The Greek Weather (Was: "Snow is White")

Tarski's Parataxis: "Snow is White", true?
R. Paul:
 
>Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is  white.
>Tarski nowhere makes the absurd claim that snow is white.  >He'd >read the 
Pre-Socratics. 
 
---- Yep. Thanks for reminding me. Indeed, his seminal  paper makes special 
reference to Aristotle to whom we should credit the example  (as he quoted 
Anaxagoras).
 
One is surpised that the Greeks ever _saw_ 'snow'. 
 
C. M. Bowra says in "The Greek Way" that it's the sun,  brilliant, on a clear 
day, upon the meadow of dry weather, and the ability to be  naked and with 
the flute, that was the miracle of the Greeks.
 
Indeed, I'm just watching on live-TV some silly musical  festival held on 
Rockefeller Center in NYC, and the man who's singing is bundled  up and covered 
in such a ridiculous way as he sings the opera (he's actually  wearing a scarf, 
as the thing is broadcast alive from a cold  night)
that I immediately thought of those oil-covered virgin  girls in ... where 
was it Samothracia? No Lacaedemonian. 

Only if you are  free to move around (in a naturistic kind of way) can you 
philosophize. Which  brings us back to the topics,
 
Did it ever snow in Miletos?
 
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Cheers,
 
JL



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