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From: gek@ihuxj.UUCP (glenn kapetansky)
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Subject: Re: Mind and Brain
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Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 16:50:22 EDT
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Keywords: behaviorism,brain,mind,Plato,dead greeks

Ok, Mr. Moffett let's discuss this idea of yours that concepts
invented by Greeks are to be taken with agrain of salt. I agree.
So let me paraphrase your contentions by quoting Aristotle, and
I invite you to take yourself with a grain of salt:

"Show me these atoms of yours, Leucippus!"

(By means of this wonderfully scientific argument, Aristotle discredited
the atomic model of matter effectively until Rutherford). I don't
mean to insist you are wrong, Mr. Moffett, but may I point out that
your scientific rigor is suspect?
-- 
glenn kapetansky                                                      
                                                                        
           "The time has come", the Walrus said,                       
           "To talk of many things..."                                 
                                                                        
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