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[PNS-List] Year 2000 in Philosophical Perspective
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Jan 11 15:06:48 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:50:50 -0500
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In an article titled "Skeptics Scoff at Dire Millennium Predictions,"
philosophy professor Mark Kingwell points out that "numbers are
arbitrary but they take on a powerful, almost mystical influence. It's
the way culture works. Arbitrary things can become powerful."
Indeed, the fact the new century actually begins in 2001 doesn't seem to
influence people since it's the number 2000 that raises irrational
fears, says philosophy professor Bob Martin.
FOR MORE, PLEASE CLICK TO
http://www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.Y2K-Skeptics.html
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
