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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Submission for sci.philosophy.tech (Re: Scientific Epistemology)
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Date: Sat, 8-Aug-87 22:02:20 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  8 22:02:20 1987
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In article <120@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>The mapping is 'beautiful' only because it's now part of your intuition; was
>it 'beautiful' to you while you were struggling to understand dx/dt?
>
>No? I didn't think so...and it remains un-`beautiful' to people who don't
>grok elementary physics at least in Newtonian approximation.

Hmm. My intuition runs strongly along the dx/dt lines, and so that
wasn't a struggle.  I think, however, that you believe that ``beauty''
is a quality that must be immediately obvious to everyone.  People
have to learn to appreciate art and music as well.  What is the
difference?
-- 
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