Woody Allen writes that the idea of his mortality doesn't bother him too much, he just doesn't want to be around when it happens. William Ball -----Original Message----- From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Paul Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:32 PM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Donal McEvoy Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Is 'All men are immortal' unscientific? Walter writes > In the latter case, the claim says that if you find some entity that > is mortal, it's not possible for that entity to be a man. As a > transcendental claim, it expresses a universal and necessary truth; > being outside the realm of contingency it entails that no empirical > inquiry is required, or possible. I wonder if the words 'mortal' and 'not possible' all belong in this sentence. Didn't Janacek write an opera about all this stuff? Robert Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html