Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Cohesive Unity Message-ID: <1522@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 07:19:02 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1522 Posted: Sat Aug 17 07:19:02 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:05:52 EDT References: <325@spar.UUCP> <27500082@ISM780B.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 16 First, I already said that the "submicroscopic giraffes" line was NOT an allusion to quantum theory, but was simply an example of another wishful thinking notion for which there was "no evidence against the possibility". (Big deal.) Second, these two things could equally be referred to as "religious dogma". 1) The notion of holding to causality as a dogma even though it has been proved not to exist. 2) The notion of causality being "proved" not to exist because science has ultimately shown acausal phenomena. The second one sounds awful dogmatic, too, don't it, Mike? -- "Do I just cut 'em up like regular chickens?" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr