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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: 'understanding'
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1992 23:13:53 GMT
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In article <64837@ut-emx.uucp> joe@astro.as.utexas.edu (Joe Wang) writes:
>Can one understanding that which is false?

  Wow!  This is too good to miss.

  In 1980 a great many people understood that supply side economics would
eliminate the federal budget deficit within two or three years.  There is
even the case of one person who did not understand it, and publically
referred to it as "voodoo economics" but who clearly understands it now.

>If so, then I think Penrose's argument collapses.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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