Well, did we know THIS? We knew his ancestor wrote a famous Chemistry text...

[Monte Davis]

Very true. I hope we'll dig into the worldviews associated with the
different psychological schools (playgrounds?) at the White Visitation,
beyond the explicit level of Pointsman vs Mexico, mechanistic causality vs
statistics.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice.
>
> I will suggest and argue more in the LEGENDARY UPCOMING GR GROUP READ
> --("but it is reversed; the stimulus
> , the 'legendary" comes after") that a lot of the psychology is often an
> extension of the biological in GR......determinism
> as subject that goes all the way down like those famous turtles.
>
> Mark
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A bit of Googling tells me that Butler's *Analogy of Religion, Natural
>> and Revealed* (1736) explored the argument from design that today is
>> most often identified with William Paley's "watchmaker" version of 1802: if
>> you find a watch on the beach, all its parts intricately cooperating, it's
>> only reasonable to posit a purposeful watchmaker. Still central in
>> creationist/"intelligent design" thinking today, whether explicitly cited
>> or updated to "what are the chances a tornado blowing through a junkyard
>> would assemble a 747?"
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Butler
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Theology_or_Evidences_of_the_Existence_and_Attributes_of_the_Deity
>>
>> I think I've remarked before that given Pynchon's many uses of many
>> sciences, it's interesting how *little* there is about evolution or modern
>> biology -- which have certainly been woven into ideologies (e.g. social
>> Darwinism, "scientific" racism, and eugenics) as much as, say, control
>> theory and the psychologies of Freud, Pavlov, and Watson are woven into GR.
>> There will be glints, though (GR 5):
>>
>> Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke,
>> alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery,
>> permeating, surprising, more than the color of winter sunlight, taking
>> over not so much through any brute pungency or volume as by the high
>> intricacy to the weaving of its molecules, sharing the conjuror’s secret
>> by which—though it is not often Death is told so clearly to fuck off—the
>> living genetic chains prove even labyrinthine enough to preserve some
>> human face down ten or twenty generations . . .
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> *Bishop Butler, a religious philosopher for all time : a sketch of his
>>> life with an examination of the Analogy*
>>> <https://www.worldcat.org/title/bishop-butler-a-religious-philosopher-for-all-time-a-sketch-of-his-life-with-an-examination-of-the-analogy/oclc/7373798&referer=brief_results>
>>> by Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
>>>
>>> *Trinity College, May 15th, 1865. : Dear Sir: The inauguration of the
>>> Rev. Dr. Kerfoot to the presidency of Trinity College, will take place on
>>> Wednesday of commencement week ...*
>>> <https://www.worldcat.org/title/trinity-college-may-15th-1865-dear-sir-the-inauguration-of-the-rev-dr-kerfoot-to-the-presidency-of-trinity-college-will-take-place-on-wednesday-of-commencement-week/oclc/437986412&referer=brief_results>
>>> by Thomas Ruggles Pynchon; Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.)
>>>
>>
>>
>
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