Posted by zeugma on March 7, 2006, at 17:31:32 [reposted on March 7, 2006, at 22:17:37 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Imagine » AuntieMel, posted by 838 on March 7, 2006, at 17:06:06
My ideas in terms of 'the american dream' and on taxation etc come from Nagel. And he is an American. So there is some irony...>>
Is there? The statement, that one can believe, truly believe, that 1 1=3 provided one undergoes sufficient torture was made by a British citizen, not an American. i find irony in that.
But we must remember too that Salem, Massachusetts was the scene of one of the great witch hunts. Though Massachusetts was a British colony in 1692 (I am in no way saying anything critical of the British nation, though it did treat Alan Turing rather poorly after he helped save it).
Turing did brilliant cryptography work, in addition to his fame as mathematician. I enjoy cryptic expression, and there are places where it is a virtue to be cryptic.
-z
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