XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Bill Sloman  wrote:   
      
   > 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:   
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   > >>>>>> 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.   
      
   But Greek philosophy -was- what they had for science.   
   (and for a lot of other things beside that)   
      
   Jan   
      
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