Ideocosmology

["Dewey Dykstra, Jr." <dykstrad@bsumail.idbsu.edu>]

> Is there anything *wrong* with quoting Schroedinger correctly? Are
> you sure that you will offend the majority of prople with whom you
> communicate if you do so? Is it your impression that Schroedinger's
> ideas are yours to misrepresent?
>
> When you append a person's name to something that person didn't say
> you exceed the bounds of good scholarship and good taste. When you
> do it when you are in possession of a knowledge of what was said it
> is even worse.
>
> Leigh

I never suggested that there was anything *wrong* with quoting Schroedinger
using the words printed in the book.  It seems to be that it is you who are
so worried.

If I were worried about offending someone then I would not have included
the quotation in any form.  You seem to assume that I am doing things out
of a desire to adhere to something you call political correctness.  There
are other reasons why someone might render the quotation as I have, but
these seem to have escaped you.

Are you suggesting that Schroedinger meant these words to apply only to
*males*?  If so, I freely admit to adjusting the words, because I believe
that the REST of Schroedinger's idea DOES apply to all people and that is
the meaning I intend to convey.  Anyone familiar with conventional practice
would have recognized that not all the words are Schroedinger's from the
inclusion of the square brackets.  So the rest of Schroedinger's idea does
NOT apply to females, is that what you are saying?

Apparently "the bounds of good scholarship and good taste" are in the eyes
of the beholder.  Since you are apparently only interested in what you
define as scholarly endeavor on your own terms applied to your choice of
subjects:

from your note of Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:55:56 -0800:
> Presenting me
> with scholarly endeavor in a field I have decided to place a good
> bit nearer the instinctive end than the scholars themselves do
> will not help. You are adducing evidence where I feel evidence is
> less important, less valid, than gut feelings.

I'll leave you to your own tastes.  Meanwhile I'll adhere to mine.

Meanwhile I'm wondering why "Tradition!" is an excuse for continuing our
contribution to the educational damage this thread has been decrying.

Dewey

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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe."  --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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