"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...
He's probably mad because that statist fellow locked him in a cage.
ReplyDeleteIt's more likely to be a private cage.
DeleteYou guys aren't against locking people in cages, right? So long as it's a private cage.
But hey I guess it sounds better if you make it sound like you're against locking people in cages... even though you're not really.
Which one is the ancap ?
ReplyDeleteI win the bet Gene, he couldn't tell!
DeleteI guess you get to chose the rules for the next bet then.
DeleteI'm thinking it's the goat given that it's "arguing" is garbled and incoherent, but it could just as easily be the man if we interpret him as belaboring the goat's point and the goat as Gene yelling at him in frustration.
DeleteQuoting and modifying the great Sam Axe for my own purposes: "You know anarchists, a bunch of bitchy little girls.".
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, can you us which one is the anarcho-capitalist?
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