From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87hennt2os.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <34ddeb393782a569ffbb893d560f2016@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:51:33 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 64c72d88-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com writes: > 1) which is more important, truth or beauty? Ah, well, there's the rub. Kant's essay on the difference between the beautiful and the sublime is good reading here. > 2) exactly how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Of course, the medievals actually used this as a *caricature*, nobody discussed it. (And the question is usually misunderstood by people who are citing it with no understanding--as probably you are--sample answers are not things like "seventeen" or "fifty". The question [if anybody had discussed it, which they didn't] was whether it was an infinite or a finite number, and thus really about whether an incorporeal-being-with-spatial-location must necessarily also have some spatial extension.) > 3) if a tree falls in a forest with noone to hear, which editor > would be more useful in describing the fall? Editors, like sounds, are only in your mind.