[lit-ideas] Re: Is 'All men are immortal' unscientific?
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:26:37 +0900
My favorite along this line is from Robert Frost: "Dear Lord, forgive my
little jokes on thee, and I'll forgive thy great big one on me."
John
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:51 PM, William Ball <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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> Walter writes
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> > 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.
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> 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
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