[MD] Empirical and Historical

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Hey Bo, Ham:


On 21 Jul 2009 at 10:36, skutvik at online.no wrote:

> Dear Ham 

> I compare myself with young Phaedrus, he was submerged in an 
> "intellectual" time - reason ruled - yet he saw the impossibility of 
> reason from reason's premises. I had not arrived at something as 
> advanced as his 
> 
>     "The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given 
>     phenomenon is infinite" (page 107) 

That in a nutshell places intellect in proper perspective. In another 
nutshell Benjamin Franklin also pinpointed the chink in intellect's amour:

"So convenient a thing it is to be a rational creature since it enables us 
to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." 

It's fun to watch intellect's champions trying to rationalize the value of 
intellect.

Platt