Comments on: 10% of everything is not crap

By: Ragged Clown

Ragged Clown — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:23:32 +0000

In reply to Mr. Kent McNeill. I just stumbled across this post and your comment, Kent. I wonder if you will get notified. Anyway, I watched the movie 300 last night and I thought of you when Xerxes came on the scene. How are you? Where are you? Oh. I disagree with your theory of knowledge. It's fine that the skeleton might change over time; you can notice that. You can't notice the facts though because you will have forgotten them all.

By: Mr. Kent McNeill

Mr. Kent McNeill — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:03:43 +0000

While I’m sympathetic to the basic premise, don’t age and reflection teach us that the ‘skeletal understanding’ is the most mutable and unstable aspect, while the facts remain naught but brute facts? The skeleton provides an easy frame to hang the facts off of, but more often than not misshapen and lacking context/history/magic. In that way, being inculcated with the theorem above the data proves only a trap of middle ground, unless the buccaneer can provide the necessary synthesis and distance…

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:06:42 +0000

I was interested hearing about the book, as it sounds similar to my own path, then I realized it was written by the same guy who was utterly humorless about Crap4j.