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To: Zero Sum
It's interesting. At my ridiculous college the first semester "Laboratory" was about measurement. We actually tried to MAKE plane surfaces, straight edges, scales, primitive logorhythmic slide rules, and at least to understand a device with which we could compute the speed of light and such like. It was there that the conversation arose. But, yeah, we were all a bunch of philosophes wanna-bes.

And I htink the virtue of The Trivium - the "three ways" of grammar logic, and rhetoric, is that they address directly this problem.

So after all this study I managed to become completely incomprehensible! Who says collitch is a waste of time?

125 posted on 01/06/2008 3:18:53 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg
So after all this study I managed to become completely incomprehensible!

LOL, that's college in a nutshell! :)

133 posted on 01/06/2008 5:15:21 PM PST by Zero Sum (Liberalism: The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit! (apologies to Rabbi Benny Lau))
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