Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Albert (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/12/05


Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:50:53 -0600

Tony Orlow (aeo6) wrote:
<snip>
> Chess is a game, and a mathematical passtime. I am not sure sure it is
> worth talking too much about chess, though it's fun to play and the math
> is interesting. I guess fun is the real world application of that math,
> eh?

The real chessmasters don't do math in order to play chess well.
  What makes them great is intuition.

-- 
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the 
range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally 
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
     -- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"	


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