From: Charles Wells <charles@abstractmath.org>
To: catbb <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Principle and Practice
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:44:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OYQAx-00003l-Vj@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Michael Barr wrote:
Let me begin my answer with an aphorism. I don't know who said it first,
but I heard it from Charles Wells.
In principle, there is no difference between principle and practice, but
in practice...
It was Jan van de Snepscheut.
--Charles
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