[81] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: LIVING WAGE SIT-IN AT HARVARD (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Flaviu I Iepure)
Fri Apr 20 03:59:22 2001
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To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
cc: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:29:29 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 03:58:49 -0400
From: Flaviu I Iepure <flaviu@MIT.EDU>
"Sourav K. Mandal" wrote:
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> ""Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>" wrote:
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> > I've yet to claim reality is
> > anything more than a wide agreement on what is.
>
> In the late 15th century the wide agreement was that the Earth is flat
Err... nope. Dead Wrong.
The wide agreement at the time was precisely that the earth was _spherical_.
The myth of a medieval belief in a flat earth was invented in the 19th
century by Washington Irving.
But you're right in principle -- the perception of reality can be
manufactured.
_That_ is what those lefty post-modernists are saying after all.
-F
