Re: virus: Karl Popper for Saint (Attn Joe Dees)

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 15:36:02 MDT


On 23 Jul 2002 at 14:56, Hermit wrote:

>
> Jonathan's interesting post "virus: Giving Karl Popper His Propers
> ", Jonathan Davis, 2002-07-23 (http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=51;action=display;threadid=25759), referring to "Karl Popper Centennial - 2002-07-28", Hermit, 2002-07-23 (http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=25761) reminds me that I have frequently
considered him for proposal as a Virian saint. The upcoming centennial of his birth on 2002-07-28 seems like an appropriate occasion.
>
> Perhaps the Virian most uniquely positioned to write an article about Karl Popper and why he, of all modern philosophers, is most suited to canonization in the CoV, is Joe Dees.
>
> Joe, please let me know if you are able to take up this challenge. If you can't, I'll give it a shot, but I'm sure you will do a better job of it.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Hermit
>
I'm doing other things so I must respectfully decline. I'm sure you will
get into Popperian Falsifiability quite well. I also note that, due to his
Incompleteness Theorems, that Kurt Godel deseves serious
consideration for Virion sainthood, and the same can be said of Werner
Heisenberg due to his Uncertainty Principle.
> ----
> This message was posted by Hermit to the Virus 2002 board on Church of Virus BBS.
> <http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=51;action=display;threadid=25762>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sun Sep 22 2002 - 05:06:16 MDT