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Re: Misconceptions



At 7:50 AM -0800 2/12/98, Richard W. Tarara wrote:

Some stated misconceptions are maybe not
even really wrong.

Right! One wants to avoid conveying misconceptions that are
"not even really wrong". They tend to evolve into grotesque
misconceptions! You should need no more dramatic example of
this than what the Creationists do with the idea that the
second law of thermodynamics says "Natural processes tend
to increase the state of disorder of the universe."

Leigh