> Hi,
>
> "C.A. Cook" <coreycook12@email.msn.com> asked: [re: "silence" as a meme]
> > Why not?
>
> Question: does the idea that "wisdom is *uncommunicable*" actually affect
> minds in such a way that it causes them to communicate the idea to others?
> I suspect so. I think that the idea that "wisdom is *uncommunicable*"
> itself comes off as a piece of wisdom... and yet it is readily
> communicatable... perhaps this is like Russell and his set of all sets
> paradox...
>
> ERiC
Yes, if "wisdom" refers to all types of wisdom, including wisdom
about wisdom, then there seems to be a self-reference problem
similar to Russell's Paradox. Perhaps the best way out of this is to
use the same approach as most set theorists: There is no such thing
as "all wisdom". At any given time we are at some finite stage of
wisdom construction.
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -Einstein
(I know what Einstein meant by this, but I don't understand it. ;-o)
--Bill Haloupek haloupekb@uwstout.edu http://www.mscs.uwstout.edu/~billh/home.html My employer doesn't share my opinions, my webpage is under construction, and my life is based on a true story. Will solve math problems for food.