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From: noah@pixar.com (Little Red Rooster)
Subject: Re: Wisdom...
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In article <1994Nov12.200656.10058@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
Hal Parmalee <rdpe@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> wrote:
>In <3a33uc$5nn@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> bmyers@uoguelph.ca (Brendan P Myers) writes:
>
>>Bob Garth (bgarth@protree.com) wrote:
>>:    Would anyone like to take a stab at defineing what the word "wisdom" 
>>: means?  I don't mean the dictionary definition, I mean, what it means to 
>>: you individually.
>
>>: -Bob
>
>>	Stab!  (bleed......)  sheesh, what a full word!    :)
>
>
>How about, "The ability to make the right decision on the basis of
>inadequate knowledge." ??? John Brunner, "The Jagged Orbit"

  Wouldn't that be called, luck? Perhaps, intuition? 

>-- 
>Hal Parmalee, MD, FACP          Time is breath -try to understand this.
>3101 Ridge Rd. West                      Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
>Rochester,NY 14626
>rdpe@uhura.cc.rochester.edu


