Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?
Stuart Yeates (stuart@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz)
5 Aug 1996 02:30:25 GMT
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Paul Ciszek (pciszek@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: "Marty G. Price" <mprice@Ra.MsState.Edu> writes:
:
: > It is possible (&
: >easy --- we're not *that* far divorced from Aristotle's world) to envision
: >a world order in which Aristotle's definition is significant & Newton's is
: >silly, if not meaningless.
:
: Such a world would be rather hard to envision, as falling objects
: would behave very differently than they actually do; if we apply
: Aristotle's erroneous model of gravity to everything from raindrops
: to the moon, I don't think the result would be a world humans could
: live on.
While I concede that lot's of other things would have to be changed
too, I too can imagine such a world.
: >(who once tested the law of gravitation by falling off a farmhouse roof.
: >It worked. :) )
:
: Not only does the law of gravitation work for skeptics, it works even for
: non-sentients and inanimate objects incapable of having any opinions in the
: matter.
Evidence that it works when no sentients are watching (directly or
indirectly) is, however, very scarce.
loam
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