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From: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@cs.stanford.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: pragmatic foundation
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:44:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1N9oLS-0003rU-Hu@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1N9fZM-00069c-LT@mailserv.mta.ca>


Eduardo J. Dubuc wrote: [regarding Manin]
> He does not place himself
> within
> any philosophical or political frame. He feels free to say what it
> crosses his
> mind just as it comes. beautiful !

Right, but clearly we cannot extend the same freedom to the hoi polloi,
who cannot be trusted not to abuse it.

Vaughan Pratt


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-15 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-11 16:38 Colin McLarty
2009-11-12  8:25 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-11-12 10:36 ` topos and magic Andre Joyal
2009-11-13 19:34   ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-11-12 15:59 ` Colin McLarty
2009-11-13  0:42   ` categorical foundations Andre.Rodin
2009-11-13  1:29 ` Colin McLarty
2009-11-13  9:24   ` Andre.Rodin
2009-11-13 17:49   ` infinity Andre Joyal
2009-11-13 13:24 ` categorical foundations Colin McLarty
2009-11-15 19:02   ` Andre.Rodin
2009-11-14 22:52 ` pragmatic foundation Eduardo J. Dubuc
2009-11-15 19:57   ` Zinovy Diskin
2009-11-15 20:44   ` Vaughan Pratt [this message]
2009-11-16  2:07     ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-12 11:42 Andre.Rodin
2009-11-11  7:13 Vaughan Pratt
2009-11-10 18:20 Eduardo J. Dubuc
2009-11-12  9:07 ` Andre.Rodin
2009-11-07  5:36 Vaughan Pratt
2009-11-06 21:14 Andre Joyal

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