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Subject: I hope I won't be graded

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Damoclese

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Date Posted: 02/21/02 10:17pm
In reply to: Primordial 's message, "Any creative thinkers out there? (no scientists allowed....go AWAY)" on 02/21/02 10:01pm

>
>Question 1. Are you a reasonably thinking person who
>exists inside the box?

I don't think this is quite a good question. Being too far outside the box wouldn't let you live within it. If (logic) is the inside of the box, therein you must reside for pragmatic reasons while on earth. However, it is possible to be too devoted to logic, because if the world were always as easy logic, the conclusions would always naturally follow. So, my answer to the question is that I am both and neither. Too far one way you are delusional, too far another and you are short sighted.

>
> Shaw:(I'm paraphrasing)
>'A reasonably thinking man expects to adapt to nature.
>An unreasonably thinking man expects nature to adapt
>to him. Thus, all progress is made by unreasonable
>men.'
>
>Question 2. What application can be made using the
>above quote to question 1?

Reasonably thinking people are confined to the box of nature, unreasonably thinking men expect the box of nature to conform to their notions? Objectivity versus relativity? The applications could be wide and far-reaching.

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Subject	Author	Date
You're not playing fairly, you intellectual behemoth!	Primordial	02/22/02 8:12pm
Boxing -- Damoclese, 02/22/02 8:47pm The box is falling, the box is falling! -- Chicken little......(aka P.), 02/22/02 10:11pm