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Is Denny "anti-intellectual" by Wikipedia's definition?
Hi Waltz, Long time no see! Summarizing your quote from Wikipedia: ''Anti-intellectualism...may be expressed in various ways, such as attacks on the merits of science, education, art, or literature.'' I have an honest question here. Where does Denny attack the merits of any of these things at any time? If you have clear evidence, I'd like to ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2009
Re: "Yom Kippur" compared to two Psalms
I just looked up your two major posts and responded to one of them at some length -- not in a poetic but in a theological vein. waltz and capsize:Rabbit, I liked it a lot too. I said so in my critique and left an apologetic to that end under PB's thread. I hope you will read them. We seem to have been in the minority of readers who, when we ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008
Re: Occam's Razor
waltz and capsize: I'm not certain what you imply by the next phrase: He always thinks horses, never zebras-- unless he's on the Serengeti. One riff on Occam, WR, is this: when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. That's parsimonious unless you're in the Serengeti where zebras are plentiful, horses are not. Oh, so it ends up ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008