Re: prickles and goo

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From: Robert Firth
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1988 17:25

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In article <1832@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>An interesting passage from Alan Watts:
>
>"I have sometimes thought that all philosophical disputes could be
>reduced to an argument between the partisans of 'prickles' and the
>partisans of 'goo'...

Joe, you might find this book useful

	Isiah Berlin: The Fox and the Hedgehog

	"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"

It is ostensibly an essay on Tolstoy's view of history, but most of its
insights address exactly this division between categorists and syncretists,
whom Berlin refers to as Foxes and Hedgehogs

May your prickles never grow less...

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