>===== Original Message From moq_discuss@moq.org =====
WILLIAM JAMES "Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science
>>there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of
>>occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves
>>more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science
who
>>will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is
renewed,
>>its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than
>>of what were supposed to be the rules."
>
GLENN: Is James suggesting the laws of science should look like a 900 page tax
code?
ERIN: No I interpreted it as that all the exceptions to a rule might be
ignored as "noise" and he is just pointing out that some of that noise may
rewrite a rule. (not that there needs to be a 900 page rulebook)
GLENN: Erin, I don't think the content of the writing (or the writing itself)
you posted below R. WILSON's name was very good. Schoolboy stuff, really.
>Where's your sense of quality (the old-fashioned lowercase kind)?
ERIN: I thought it was funny. What is old-fashioned quality?
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