Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wwolfkir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:20:38 -0500

Lester Zick wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:13:55 -0500, Wolf Kirchmeir
> <wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
[...]
              You have
>>misinterpreted the meaning of the Pythagorean construction of lines of
>>irrational length (ie, lines whose measure of length is an irrational
>>number - I have to make this explicit, or you'll make the same mistake
>>you made with your "droll" retort to my phrasing of the interior angle
>>sum of a triangle as being equal to pi.)
>
>
> It may or may not have been droll but it was certainly accurate. If
> you want to confuse pi radians with pi, please don't expect others to
> agree or understand what you're trying to say that you didn't.
>
>[...]

There you go again. You've been told that "the interior angle sum of a
plane traingle is pi" is understood as referring to radians, yet you
won't accept that, because you just didn't know that. And if you didn't
know that, the rest of us must be lying, just to show up your ignorance.

Lester, if you didn't understand what I was saying, that just means you
didn't know that way of phrasing the theorem. So what? As I said, I
learned that phrasing many years ago. Either you didn't, or you forgot.
Either way, there's no dishonour in not knowing. But there is great
dishonor in pretending to know what you don't know, and slanging me for
something I did not do. Especially since your posts lately have been
mostly "droll" commenst, and no attempts at either explaining yourself
or discussing the point.

[...]

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