From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5281 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaughan Pratt Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: pragmatic foundation Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:44:15 -0800 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Vaughan Pratt NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258328507 2161 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2009 23:41:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:41:47 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Mon Nov 16 00:41:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N9oix-0001Ct-J3 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:41:39 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1N9oLS-0003rU-Hu for categories-list@mta.ca; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:17:22 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5281 Archived-At: 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 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]