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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,sci.philosophy.tech,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Existence
Summary: nice story. was it before the electricity?
Keywords: autogratification
Message-ID: <1991Dec11.025041.6425@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 91 07:50:40 GMT
References: <1991Dec4.212727.6154@husc3.harvard.edu> <1991Dec6.204854.2218@arizona.edu> <1991Dec10.175006.28600@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
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In article <1991Dec10.175006.28600@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> 
gls@windmill.ATT.COM (Col. G. L. Sicherman) reminisces:

>In my youth I sat through a debate between a Platonist and a Hilbertian.

How nice that you can still recall it in your anecdotage.

>Round and round they went, with never a doubt that "exist" meant something
>precise or that they meant the same thing by it. 

Naturally, a real trooper like yourself had to mirror their self-assurance
by assuming that he knew what they were talking about.  Sounds just like a
circle jerk to me.  Did you enjoy yourself?

>-- 
>Col. G. L. Sicherman
>gls@windmill.att.COM


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