My Laundromat
Apparently employs a fox, who works beyond this door:
"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...
Either that or a spiteful and quarrelsome woman. You'll either get your shins scrapped to the bone, or be yelled at in a very angry and argumentative way. Use caution.
ReplyDeleteApparently it is the name of a neighborhood crime watch group.
ReplyDeleteHuh? I guess that makes sense (for a name).
ReplyDeleteBTW, the translator on Mac's dashboard said that the word meant "vixen", so that is the angle I was going for. I imagine that it depends on the usage, and that in most cases it simply means "fox".
I don't speak/understand Italian. However, and this is kind of weird, I can understand spoken Spanish, but I cannot speak it. How, I do not know.