[FRIAM] flattening -isms

[Nick Thompson]

Glen, 

Hywel was Welch born particle physicist who came to rest at Los Alamos.  He
was a dedicated attender of the Mother Church, even though he thought we
were all as silly as hens.  His most famous line was, "It's more complicated
than that" and out would come the pad of paper and the elegant pen and we
would all be subjected to particle diagrams with Greek-lettered thisses and
thatses flying off in various directions.  He loved to taunt the
mathematicians in the group with "Mathematics is ok but eventually you have
to know something."  He was a climate skeptic. He died a couple of years
back.  We miss him terribly, perhaps BECAUSE he drove us crazy.  

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

-----Original Message-----
From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen?C
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2019 8:02 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] flattening -isms

I don't know this Hywel person. But number of things of a type is different
from number of types of thing. 8^) Unless types of a thing are also things
of a type. Channeling a modern teenager: That's so meta, dude.

On 11/17/19 6:55 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Channeling Hywel, I hope accurately: There is no irrational number of 
> things of any type in the Universe


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