... More about Method in the Social Sciences A. The Pythagoreans, Aristotle tells us (Metaph. A, 986a23), arranged things in pairs, the ten sustoichia, limited...
Dear Ed, 1) Your attempt to find a Table of Opposites for the Social Sciences is interesting. What do you think of John Stuart Mill's arguments about this in...
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... Dear Judy, I am not familiar enough with J. S. Mill to know the arguments in his Logic to which you refer, but the appropriate reference and, if you wish,...
Dear Ed, The last part of Mill's A System of Logic, Part V, I believe, is about the social sciences. (I'll be more specific when I find my copy of the System...
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The Stranger appears in the Sophist, the Statesman, Laws and others. People claim the Stranger to be from Elea, home of the Miletians and notably, Parmenides....
What i already know: The stranger appears in the Sophist, the Statesman, Laws and others. People claim the Stranger to be from Elea, home of the Miletians and...
... FAIRIES Do you believe in fairies? I do. Oh, not the way we did as small children. Differently. Like this: I have been reading Puck of Pook's Hill. You...
Dear Ed, How nice to meet another fan of Rudyard Kipling! Yes, I have read Puck of Pook's Hill and others of the series, and you do get some English history...
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Apr 12, 2005 2:06 am
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Thanks, Judy. When I was drafted into the army in 1941 there was only one book I took with me. It was Kipling's Collected Verse. Some of his poems explained to...
... We invoked the fairies in the last post. It was pointed out that history and religion and science, all grew out of myth in the infancy of mankind. We might...
Dear Ed, Thank you for the reading tips. I have just read two fine books which may be of interest, as well as a book I am rereading. (1) Owen Gingrich, The...
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Thank you, Judy. I think you mentioned Gingrich before. The best thing I know about Delphi is Heraclitus' "To menteion to en Delphois oute lege oute kruptei...
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... ISOCRATES The last two posts have asked us to pause, and to reconsider IV century B.C. Athens, and the positions of some of its great men. Surpassing the...
... ISOCRATES AND DEMOSTHENES - THE HELLENISTIC WORLD (Reprise) "In the entrance-hall stood the larger figures of the Greco-Buddhist sculptures done, savants ...
... OBITER DICTUM - METAPOLITICS The "contest" between Demosthenes and Isocrates was worthy of our close attention only because it pointed up an acute...
... The enlargement of our views of the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle to include an overview of Isocrates and the ensuing diaspora of Greeks to the East...
... RECAP "The affair does not need to be so complicated. A simple explanation will do" (last post). I am not joking. I am not saying that the Parmenides and...
... A GORDIAN KNOT What was Parmenides talking about? Clues from third parties are rare, but here are two: Isocrates' Antidosis has a long defense and praise...
... A CONVERSATION WITH PARMENIDES Parmenides [interpolations mine - EL] Ei d'ag' egOn ereO, komisai de su muthon akousas, haiper hodoi mounai dizEsios eisi...
Good luck, Ed! Judy Wubnig ... This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca...
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Although I 'm not writing anymore, because of lack of time, I'm still reading... Ed Little: I wish you good luck , Carmen ... [Non-text portions of this...
Thank you, Judy, Carmen and Paul for your best wishes. My disability goes under the name of spondylitic myelinopathy. It's clarified in Liddell & Scott. - Ed...
Edward Little, thank you for your prodigious contributions. I hope you recover from surgery! The Open Countryside- We enjoy being in the open countryside so...
Dear Ed Litttle, From all of us at Parmenides Publishing - we appreciate your thoughts and insights very much and wish you all the best for a speedy recovery. ...
Sara Hermann
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... A PARTING SHOT (I told you so) Lewis Thomas, M.D., came into sudden prominence about thirty years ago, with the publication of a little book, Lives of a...
Your files are attached and ready to send with this message. ... While waiting around for the "cutter," I have been reading and thinking (which by now you must...
Your files are attached and ready to send with this message. ... Rebecca Goldstein's book on Goedel, "Incompleteness," New York, Viking, 2005, is an ...
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