Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!actnyc!gcf
From: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: The nature of reality.
Message-ID: <793@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 16:21:14 GMT
References: <343@thirdi.UUCP> <732@actnyc.UUCP> <356@thirdi.UUCP> <365@thirdi.UUCP> <11008@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Organization: InterACT Corporation
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In article <11008@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
} In article <365@thirdi.UUCP> sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
} -... With actual (non-metaophorical) maps, I think that one would judge
} -the accuracy of another's map by whether the parts that corresponded
} -with yours matched well....
} 
} This is quite true.  Note that major problems occur when the maps do
} NOT match well; then we get arguments like the one amongst Sevener,
} Friedman, and Carr.

Actually, the maps have to match _fairly_ well, with a few significant
discrepancies.  Thus the argument alluded to has continued interminably
with many branches; but when someone asserted that Severner and Friedman
had been observed in the caverns of Neptune making faces at each other,
nobody followed up, although the latter assertion was about as cogent
as any of the others.