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From: tooly on 23 May 2010 19:33
On May 20, 8:58 am, Sir Frederick Martin <mmcne...(a)fuzzysys.com>
wrote:
> Is any subject outside of what science should research?
> No. 'We' are not that important.
> Though hubris may tell stories, otherwise.

I've often said that take Love or Beauty into the lab, and they
disappear.
From: Albert van der Horst on 25 May 2010 08:13
In article <960b9464-0ec6-44dc-9c74-3fff08293c22(a)g39g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
Immortalist <reanimater_2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
>But what about fictional beings, such as unicorns? Surely we can talk
>about the properties of a unicorn, such as having one horn and four
>legs, without unicorns actually having to exist. The answer is that
>what a sentence like 'Unicorns have one horn' really means is 'If
>unicorns were to exist, they would have one horn'. In other words,
>'Unicorns have one horn' is really a hypothetical statement. So the
>non-existence of unicorns is not a problem for the view that existence
>is not a property.

In view of recent developments post-graduate students in 3400 will
get a description of a unicorn, and a term-project to create one.
If it doesn't breed you can't get a better grade than 7 (B- for
US-citiziens.

What was it again you were trying to explain?

Groetjes Albert

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