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   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 25/02/2026 1:15 am, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 24/02/2026 10:40 pm, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   >>> Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 24/02/2026 7:08 am, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   >>>>> Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On 23/02/2026 5:38 pm, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
      
      
      
   >>>>>> Greek philosophy was great at getting hold of the wrong end of the   
   stick.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Ah, you have the right end?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I'm not a philosopher. How could I possibly know?   
   >>>   
   >>> Then how could you know that 'the Greek philosophers' (whoever)   
   >>> usually got the wrong end?   
   >>   
   >> I've read quite a bit of the history, and historians do enjoy pointing   
   >> it out. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and Greek philosophy occurred   
   >> long enough ago to have been exposed to quite a lot of it.   
   >   
   > It is a grab bag.   
   > You can find lots of wrong and right ends in there,   
   > depending on your prejudices about right and wrong,   
      
   Science has the advantage that it looks for concensus, and can end up   
   with a pretty robust idea of right and wrong.   
      
   Philosophy is less coherent - with much more room for prejudice.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
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