http://www.webofstories.com/play/freeman.dyson/47;jsessionid=8061AFD75FDBC3AC297D4555140693AC this is actually very funny On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > palma writes > > 'the idiocy of the wittgensteinian ( it was not wittgenstein's own) is > that once one "knows" that ordinary greek has 'atom' as the thing s.t. it > is not t[a]mable (cuttbale) then one "knows" that when Fermi cut the atoms > he said something false and/or meaningless. > > ............ > > 'one of the cutest ideas of this branch of philosophy is in its taking > authority by asking the person on the bus etc.' > > —————— > > *'Wittgensteinians' are fictions, made up by those who really don't want > to talk about Wittgenstein—and that because they can't be troubled to > actually read him. > > *I understand that a copy of the old black and white movie—starring > Elizabeth Taylor as Elizabeth Anscombe, Barry Fitzgerald as G. E. Moore, > and Gregory Peck as the young Wittgenstein—long believed lost—has been > discovered, and will be released in September. > > Robert Paul > > > > > > > > > -- palma, e TheKwini, KZN palma cell phone is 0762362391 *only when in Europe*: inst. J. Nicod 29 rue d'Ulm f-75005 paris france