[lit-ideas] Re: untestable proposition of the day

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:26:27 -0400

Speaking of art......has anyone seen the plastinated people? They're coming to the Toronto Science Centre.

And speaking of MoMA's, the San Fran version has a penguin mascot named ursula. I have her portrait in my office. Charming all in all,
Ursula


Eric Yost wrote:

The untestable proposition of the day, indeed any day, is surely that whatever proposition we make as to the line demarcating what is testable from what is not testable is itself untestable in the sense of whatever demarcation is proposed.

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Can we test that the untestable is the suggestion of untestability by the very nature of what it asserts about testing? Is there an ontological discontinuity between the testable and the untestable, or does the testable slowly, and by imperceptible degrees, merge with the untestable in a way we cannot test?

Or do we try these things on as a sort of brain clothing?

I haven't the foggiest but I should....it's very humid out today.

Eric


(Went to the MoMA this afternoon for the air conditioning...and because someone got me in free. Art, don't talk to me about art. Art is gift shops spelled "shoppes.")


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