<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues, <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jon Z and Frank have me reading Cormac McCarthy.<span> </span>I have started with his last book, Stella
Maris <span> </span>(?Star of the Sea?).<span> </span>It is the dialogue that each of us has always
wished we had with our psychiatrist . It is witty, often funny, makes lots of
references to Los Alamos, is always engaging, and sometimes deep.<span> </span>I am enjoying it and may have to read it a
second time. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the following lines, the patient character
expresses an opinion on the central issue of Pragmat[ic]ism. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Patient:] …The world you live in is shored some up by a
collection of agreements.<span> </span>Is that
something you think about?<span> </span>The hope is
that the truth of the world somehow lies in the common experience of it.<span> </span>Of course the history of science and
mathematics and even philosophy is a good bit at odds with this notion.<span> </span>Innovation and discovery by definition war
against the common understanding.<span> </span>One
should be wary.<span> </span>What do you think? [pp 91-2]<span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">I am not
going to comment.<span> </span>I just thought you
might like to have the quote to mull over. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Nick <span></span></span></p>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>