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From: am88@unix.brighton.ac.uk ( AABS )
Subject: Re: Roger Penrose's New Book (in HTML) 1.0
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with respect to penrose as a mathamatician,
is it possible or worthwhile to try to take a person seriously who asserts:

that we must have a particular property
because for us to bother thinking about having that property
would be wasted effort unless we actually did have that property.

I spot a certain amount of BLIND FAITH in that assertion!

henceforth this should be known as a penrosian statement!

tosh by any other name.

