Roni
-----Original Message-----
From: TheHermit <carlw@hermit.net>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 2:21 AM
Subject: RE: virus: what do we call them?
>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
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-virus@lucifer.com
>> [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
>> Of Joe E. Dees
>> Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 2:28 AM
>> To: virus@lucifer.com
>> Subject: Re: virus: what do we call them?
>>
>>
>> Date sent: Mon, 10 May 1999 00:00:37 -0700
>> From: KMO <kmo@c-realm.com>
>> Organization: C-Realm
>> To: virus@lucifer.com
>> Subject: Re: virus: what do we call them?
>> Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > "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! ;~)
>>
>>
>>
>