Oh My God
I just accidentally ate Miracle Whip! I blame the Québécois!
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
No one even wants to know why I place the blame where I do?
ReplyDeleteGene, I'm the only reader you have. Unless you blame it on Rothbard, you won't get a rise out of me.
ReplyDeleteCome on, Bob, since I allowed Silas back on board, I know there at least two of you.
ReplyDeleteI blame the Québécois for everything, so for me there was nothing to explain.
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