RE: virus: Only the facts ma'am.
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:20:09 +0100
> From: Nathaniel Hall[SMTP:natehall@lgcy.com]
> Reply To: virus@lucifer.com
> Sent: 16 September 1997 14:50
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: Only the facts ma'am.
>
> Robin Faichney wrote:
>
> > > From: Nathaniel Hall[SMTP:natehall@lgcy.com]
> > > >>
> > > >> Data are not facts, because to be in possession of a fact is
> > > >> to know something about the world, i.e. to have a valid
> > > >> theory. In fact, facts are theories.
> > > >>
> > > >> Robin
> > > >
> > > > I look into my in my wallet and see I have 23$. That is a
> fact.
> > I
> > > > now know something new in the world . Am I a theorist now too?
> > >
> > The thing in your head is a theory, a meme. It may or
> > may not have a certain sort of relationship with some
> > state of affairs outside your head. But either way, it
> > remains a theory, a concept, a meme.
> >
> > BTW, falsehoods maim too, you know.
> >
> > Robin
>
> At least your consistant. By the way I was maimed by my own screw
> up,
> I meant to type in ma'am not maim. Fortunately my seeing of your
> remark
> allows me to modify the theory to where I wanted it.
>
Not sure to what extent you're serious here, but just in case:
that's not a theory, but an expression.
Robin