[meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All
From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Aug 18 17:27:27 2006 Message-ID: <04d201c6c30d$14757130$7353e146_at_ATARIENGINE> Hi, Doug, List I apologize. I did not take your meaning correctly. I mis-read it to suggest the absence of historians when you were characterizing them as members and suggesting the addition of another relevant field. Excuse me now, while I remove the upper cover seals from my brain case and look for short circuits... Sterling K. Webb -------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "MexicoDoug" <MexicoDoug_at_aim.com> To: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb_at_sbcglobal.net>; "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All > Hi Sterling, you really don't have to disagree with me because you have > edited an old message of mine to the point of completely changing its > meaning - with a new meaning I disagree with as well.. > > Here's what I said: "The IAU Committee has utterly failed by not including > a > committee > member of the class and stature of Saul Kripke. Historians and > Astronomers...but how about including someone with real experience and > credentials in aprioricity who has danced with the likes of Kant (and > usually held his own). I trust they will remedy this, as good scientists > not concerned about who shares their turf..." > > Here's what you say I said: >> Mexico Doug said: >> > The IAU Committee has utterly failed >> > by not including... Historians... >> > but how about including someone >> > with real experience and credentials > > I have no doubt that Owen Gingerich isn't the great historian you > researched > him to be and don't wish you to cut and paste my words erroneously to > think > I would have a different conclusion. However, you have edited my post to > appear that I don't recognize the quality of the historians on the > "Committee". Read it. I am recognizing the committee has good > astronomers > and historians!!! > > A more valid question is why is this committee needed, not taking for > granted that it is a needed committee. And if you Google Saul Kripke you > will find his forte isn't really history at all, but rather he is the > closest living example we have today of a Nobel laureate > Philosopher-linguist whose specialty is this tyope of issue, and when > words > and concepts are arbitrary and when they are a priori - and when change is > in order and when not, I would hastily suppose as well. > > Best wishes, Doug > > Received on Fri 18 Aug 2006 05:27:16 PM PDT |
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