AtD "different utterances of the same principle"
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue May 7 15:39:40 CDT 2013
would that be an example of consilience as that term is (in this case
loosely) defined?
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:
> Tho I am but novitiate when it comes to AtD I was rereading and found this
> wonderful line where Merle, drunkenly, supposes Blinky Morgan and the
> Michelson-Morley experiments are connected:
>
> "Not that one would *cause* the other, exactly, but that both would be
> different utterances of the same principle."
>
> p61 (italics mine)
>
>
> I would just like to hear the List riff on this a bit.. my own thoughts
> are undeveloped, but it seems that "different utterances of the same
> principle" is a more fore-grounded theme in the novel (Renfrew Werfner
> comes into mind), but are there any Connections less obvious?
> What principle is he talking about?
>
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