My Maxims outgun your squirt pistols.... could it what we would. I would
suggest that many of the terms being bandied here carry non-Virian shades of
meaning which will taint the field for one group or another. Hmmm, bandied
<=> bandersnatch... there is a nice neutral term. And if anyone gets too
iffy about a particular maxim, then they can be positively frumious!
TheHermit
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> Date sent: Mon, 10 May 1999 00:00:37 -0700
> From: KMO <kmo@c-realm.com>
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> >
> >
> > "Joe E. Dees" wrote:
> >
> > > I forgot to mention axioms; this isn't TOO mathematical, and
> > > maybe postulates (which might be).
> >
> > I LIKE "postulates."
> >
> > -KMO
> >
> >
> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?db=web1913&term=Post
> ulate&config=define
> >
> >
> >
> > Postulate \Pos"tu*late\, n. [L.
> postulatum a
> > demand,
> > request, prop. p. p. of postulare
> to demand,
> > prob. a
> > dim. of poscere to demand, prob.
> for porcscere;
> > akin to
> > G. forschen to search,
> investigate, Skr. prach
> > to ask,
> > and L. precari to pray: cf. F.
> postulat. See
> > Pray.] 1.
> > Something demanded or asserted;
> especially, a
> > position or supposition assumed
> without proof,
> > or one
> > which is considered as
> self-evident; a truth to
> > which
> > assent may be demanded or
> challenged, without
> > argument or evidence.
> >
> > 2. (Geom.) The enunciation of a
> self-evident
> > problem,
> > in distinction from an axiom, which is the
> > enunciation
> > of a self-evident theorem.
> >
> > The distinction between a postulate and an
> > axiom lies
> > in this, -- that the latter is
> admitted to be
> > self-evident,
> > while the former may be agreed
> upon between two
> >
> > reasoners, and admitted by both, but not as
> > proposition which it would be impossible to
> > deny.
> > --Eng. Cyc.
> > Source: Webster's
> > Revised Unabridged Dictionary
> >
> I suppose "level-3'ers" could then consider themselves postulants
> (or at least posturers! ;~)
>
>
>