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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,sci.philosophy.tech,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Existence
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Date: 8 Dec 91 04:35:18 GMT
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In article <95503@brunix.UUCP> 
cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:

>In article <1991Dec7.070815.6257@husc3.harvard.edu> 
>zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:

>>>What difference does it make whether the number pi "exists"?

MZ:
>>None whatsoever to the hoi polloi.  What the fuck are you doing posting to
>>a philosiophy newsgroup?

CY:
>Congratulations, Mikhail; you've broadened my day.  Do you realize that
>you're probably the first man since Louis XIV to use the phrase "hoi polloi"
>in a non-ironic context? 

Dear Curtis,

Are you casting yourself for the part of arbiter ironiarum, 
or are you just talking out of your ass, as is your wont?

>c

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