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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
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Subject: Re: Contempt prior to Investication (was Parapsychology and sloppiness)
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In article <564@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:

>GO AWAY!  FIND ANOTHER WORD!  LIFE IS HARD ENOUGH FOR METAPHYSICIANS AS
>IT IS!!!

    This is true. After proving space and time are mere illusions, one
has a distressing tendency to bump into walls. Appointments are never
kept; in fact, personal identity is sometimes lost as well. :-)

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
"The *evident* character of this defective cognition of which mathematics
is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on
the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore
of a kind that philosophy must spurn." -- G. W. F. Hegel