Comments on: Hey Kids! Epistemology! http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Glorious Godfrey http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193474 Glorious Godfrey Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:41:21 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193474 For the uninitiated, Kip w is making an awesome reference to an issue of "Doom patrol", a comic written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Richard Case. It has brains in jars and Cartesian piss-taking aplenty and is a riot, but it is more concerned with mind-body dualism than with Deceiving Daemons. Which is apposite. Olsen's vat is NOT outfitted with 3D-GOGGLES ! ! ! For the uninitiated, Kip w is making an awesome reference to an issue of “Doom patrol”, a comic written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Richard Case. It has brains in jars and Cartesian piss-taking aplenty and is a riot, but it is more concerned with mind-body dualism than with Deceiving Daemons.

Which is apposite. Olsen’s vat is NOT outfitted with 3D-GOGGLES ! ! !

]]> By: Lee A. Arnold http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193418 Lee A. Arnold Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:48:22 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193418 George, if you make money off of that, you owe me some. George, if you make money off of that, you owe me some.

]]> By: Hermenauta http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193376 Hermenauta Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:29:10 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193376 I'm deeply disappointed by your lack of understandment. Since it is patently clear from the picture that Bushniacs have progressed one step further than waterboarding, into the even more wetted realm of brainwashing. I’m deeply disappointed by your lack of understandment. Since it is patently clear from the picture that Bushniacs have progressed one step further than waterboarding, into the even more wetted realm of brainwashing.

]]> By: George http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193367 George Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:06:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193367 This is very hard to argue with… So, if Gregory of Nyssa or his sister claimed that the post-resurrection body is a sphere, I would tend to go with that, <a href="http://www.handymoves.co.uk" rel="nofollow">removals</a> (one way or the other I guess,) but as Nicholas of Cusa might have pointed-out, a sphere with infinite radius is a plane, while a sphere with zero radius is… well, I don’t know what exactly… but it looks like the existence of eschatological hope proves that YOU, contra Cantor, are a denumerable continuum. This is very hard to argue with… So, if Gregory of Nyssa or his sister claimed that the post-resurrection body is a sphere, I would tend to go with that, removals (one way or the other I guess,) but as Nicholas of Cusa might have pointed-out, a sphere with infinite radius is a plane, while a sphere with zero radius is… well, I don’t know what exactly… but it looks like the existence of eschatological hope proves that YOU, contra Cantor, are a denumerable continuum.

]]> By: Kip W http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193336 Kip W Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:43:25 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193336 It just needs a bullet hole in the jar, plugged with a piece of bubble gum. "Knock knock..." It just needs a bullet hole in the jar, plugged with a piece of bubble gum.

“Knock knock…”

]]> By: Tom Scudder http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193321 Tom Scudder Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:36:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193321 <i>according to Gregory of Nyssa (or his sister), the post-resurrection body will be spherical.</i> "Consider a spherical <i>parousia</i>" according to Gregory of Nyssa (or his sister), the post-resurrection body will be spherical.

“Consider a spherical parousia”

]]> By: Crooked Timber » » Hawkman explains why the Treaty of Versailles was fair to Germany http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193318 Crooked Timber » » Hawkman explains why the Treaty of Versailles was fair to Germany Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:26:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193318 [...] up a longer post on this important subject. But, in the face of a certain natural skepticism, expressed in comment to my previous post, I have decided to seed discussion with a pair of frames from All-Star Comics #24 (Spring, [...] [...] up a longer post on this important subject. But, in the face of a certain natural skepticism, expressed in comment to my previous post, I have decided to seed discussion with a pair of frames from All-Star Comics #24 (Spring, [...]

]]> By: eleanor http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193315 eleanor Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:39:49 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193315 Cogito ergo sum geek. Cogito ergo sum geek.

]]> By: Jimmy Olsen's brain http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193314 Jimmy Olsen's brain Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:22:02 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193314 As a celebrity brain in a jar, let me just say: I envy the dead. As a celebrity brain in a jar, let me just say: I envy the dead.

]]> By: Ignacio Prado http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193312 Ignacio Prado Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:13:11 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193312 re: "Gregory of Nyssa (or his sister)" Gregoria ist Nice? re: “Gregory of Nyssa (or his sister)”

Gregoria ist Nice?

]]> By: swampcracker http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193311 swampcracker Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:45:16 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193311 "sphere with zero radius is" is a singularity “sphere with zero radius is” is a singularity

]]> By: Walt http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193307 Walt Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:33:19 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193307 You better deliver on that Hawkman/Versailles promise, or I'm totally going over to the Theory side. You better deliver on that Hawkman/Versailles promise, or I’m totally going over to the Theory side.

]]> By: Patrick S. O'Donnell http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193304 Patrick S. O'Donnell Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:23:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193304 I would have thought the post-resurrection body would rather resemble the pineal gland. I would have thought the post-resurrection body would rather resemble the pineal gland.

]]> By: Lee A. Arnold http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193303 Lee A. Arnold Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:18:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193303 Alfred Jarry reports that after he died, Dr. Faustroll, "finding his soul to be abstract and naked, donned the realm of the unknown dimension." Then, in his postmortem letter to Lord Kelvin, Faustroll writes that God's name is not Jack, but that He is the shortest distance between zero and infinity, in either direction. "But God being without dimension is not a line. [...] Therefore, definitively: GOD IS THE TANGENTIAL POINT BETWEEN ZERO AND INFINITY. Pataphysics is the science..." (from: Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician -- Simon Taylor Watson, translator.) This is very hard to argue with... So, if Gregory of Nyssa or his sister claimed that the post-resurrection body is a sphere, I would tend to go with that, (one way or the other I guess,) but as Nicholas of Cusa might have pointed-out, a sphere with infinite radius is a plane, while a sphere with zero radius is... well, I don't know what exactly... but it looks like the existence of eschatological hope proves that YOU, contra Cantor, are a denumerable continuum. Alfred Jarry reports that after he died, Dr. Faustroll, “finding his soul to be abstract and naked, donned the realm of the unknown dimension.” Then, in his postmortem letter to Lord Kelvin, Faustroll writes that God’s name is not Jack, but that He is the shortest distance between zero and infinity, in either direction. “But God being without dimension is not a line. [...] Therefore, definitively: GOD IS THE TANGENTIAL POINT BETWEEN ZERO AND INFINITY. Pataphysics is the science…” (from: Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician—Simon Taylor Watson, translator.)

This is very hard to argue with… So, if Gregory of Nyssa or his sister claimed that the post-resurrection body is a sphere, I would tend to go with that, (one way or the other I guess,) but as Nicholas of Cusa might have pointed-out, a sphere with infinite radius is a plane, while a sphere with zero radius is… well, I don’t know what exactly… but it looks like the existence of eschatological hope proves that YOU, contra Cantor, are a denumerable continuum.

]]> By: Robin http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/comment-page-1/#comment-193301 Robin Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:57:12 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/14/hey-kids-epistemology/#comment-193301 Now I understand why Hilary Putnam use to wear that Braniac t-shirt!!!! The evil scientist at the beginning of <em>Reason, Truth and History</em>: Braniac! Now I understand why Hilary Putnam use to wear that Braniac t-shirt! The evil scientist at the beginning of Reason, Truth and History: Braniac!

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