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...
don't use swiss army knife on baby
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I'm compiling a list of good advice on this stuff
Don't use the immersion blender either.
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How much can I pay you to leave Bohm-Bawerk alone?
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ReplyDeleteNow just where in the elsewhere econoblogosphere have I seen that phrase several hundred times, and not Marginally, either, so much as a constantly Revolving theme. As for me, when from my Marketing I return home and unpack Everything, I put it all in George Mason jars, lest in rolling off the counter, intuitively, it should ruin the kitchen floor and force me to call in the tiler to repair it.
Perhaps, but ignoring opportunities for mutual gain that get reported under that phrase is just as Oakeshott::ideological. (namespaced for clarity)
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