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Article #1953Re: Why the oceans are salty?
From: Professor Vonroach
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:54
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:54
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:29:34 -0400, "$teve (vrml3d.com)" <comments@vrml3d.com> wrote: > >Steve <bozone@ripco.com> wrote in message >news:3BB8C8DA.9D9A3F57@ripco.com... >> >> >> Professor Vonroach wrote: >[snip] >> >> -ahem- >> >> After extensive contempation in the spirit of the father of the field of >> semantics, Alfred Korzybski, I have decided upon amending the previous >> statement to read, "subjectively salty." Unfortunately that can only be an individual qualitative statement, from what one person might identify as minimally salty to what almost all would call salty. >>am quite aware that no >> quantity of water may be said to be salt-free, rather, that we may only >> assign a probability to the likelihood of finding a salt molecule >> therein. Except in an imaginary ideal situation, I can easily assign that a possibility = 1. >> I am also quite aware that consciousness of minutiae does not >> necessarily preclude its omission, usually with an eye toward referring >> to an object or event in a less cumbersome and (subjectively) meaningful >>way Careful Korbzybski and hubris has got your tongue to wagging aimlessly. > >Amen, brother. > >--$teve > >
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