Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: The Topic that wouldn't go away (re: sci vs. talk) Summary: Was/is he? Keywords: Objectivism, philosophy, sci.* Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 90 17:27:35 GMT References: <3284@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <3285@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <1990Feb2.083825.1899@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 11 In article <1990Feb2.083825.1899@agate.berkeley.edu>, gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes: > "We never make assertions, Miss Taggart," said Hugh Akston. "That is > the moral crime peculiar to our enemies. We do not tell--we *show*. We > do not claim--we *prove*." H Akston, the last of the advocates of reason ^^^^^^^^ "Or the first of their return." -- "She sounded like a very nice woman, but, of course, that's no reason for getting married." -- C. E. "Billie" Daiell