[lit-ideas] Re: Is 'All men are immortal' unscientific?
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, William Ball <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:42:37 -0230
Good to hear from you Bill, after your extended silence. Trust that you are well
and that the Chianti flows like milk from ..... damn, can't finish that
sentence. The inadequacies of a philosophical education, to be sure. Best
wishes always, Walter
Quoting William Ball <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.
>
> 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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