valuable errors

From: Jacques M Mallah <jqm1584.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:35:20 -0400

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Gilles HENRI wrote:
> Jacques, don't you think that thought can progress only by confronting
> various opinions,

        I agree that it can sometimes be useful, though it is not the only
way.

> and that stimulating errors may be more useful than trivial truthes?

        Yes, that's why I've enjoyed my discussions with Wei Dai. My
problem is with what I see as the trivial errors that are so entrenched in
many of the opinions.

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              Jacques Mallah (jqm1584.domain.name.hidden)
       Graduate Student / Many Worlder / Devil's Advocate
"I know what no one else knows" - 'Runaway Train', Soul Asylum
            My URL: http://pages.nyu.edu/~jqm1584/
Received on Mon Apr 12 1999 - 10:39:22 PDT

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