Re: clarification re: photelectricity, history, and PAC Learning

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 19:52 11/8/00 -0500, John Denker wrote:
> At 04:55 PM 11/8/00 -0500, I wrote in part:
> > If these ideas are new or unclear to you, ....
>
> This led some people to wonder whom I was addressing as
> "you".  Answer:  "You" was the wrong word.  I did not have a particular
> "you" in mind.  I should have said something like:
>
>        If anyone finds these ideas new or unclear, ....
>
> Sorry for any confusion.


In my view, this scholarly and modest contribution (not the first
in recent weeks) needed no apology.
 The conversational second person is, I agree, not the quintessence
of the passive mood a la mode for scientific communication, old style.

Vive la vague nouvelle!




brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
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