Re: Naive conceptions

[twayburn@juno.com (Thomas L Wayburn)]

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:24:49 -0600 "Sr. Margaret Clarke"
<mclarke@css.edu> writes:
> I just came from an institutional committee meeting at which a senior 
> faculty
> member of the Humanities division,  commenting on the chill in the 
> air,
> explained: "When there aren't any clouds in the sky, the cold from 
> outer space
> can get in at night." 
>
> Margaret Clarke,
> College of St. Scholastica, Duluth MN.
What's the difference whether one speaks of *something* or *the absence
of something*?   After all, electric current is the flow of "holes",
ain't it?  More or less.   - TLW