[FRIAM] 8^D

David Eric Smith desmith at santafe.edu
Mon Oct 12 17:01:02 EDT 2020


I think it is a grand metaphor, meant to bring in the whole of one of the briefest postal correspondences in the literature of science.

Boltzmann to his publisher:  ?
Publisher back to Boltamann: !

What did Churchill say?  The two things that modern man would worst miss were a classical education and the horse.

Eric



> On Oct 12, 2020, at 4:57 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That's not how it works.  B^O    <=== mansplaining
> 
> A qualifier with nothing being qualified is like a metaphor with no referent or a sign without an object, dangerously close to the dreaded ... wait for it ... QUALIA. Is your emote supposed to represent *you*? Me? Is it supposed to modify the content of the thread as a whole?
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> On 10/12/20 1:46 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
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