[meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, Doug, List


    I apologize. I did not take your meaning correctly. I mis-read it
to suggest the absence of historians when you were characterizing
them as members and suggesting the addition of another relevant
field.
    Excuse me now, while I remove the upper cover seals from
my brain case and look for short circuits...


Sterling K. Webb
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All


> Hi Sterling, you really don't have to disagree with me because you have
> edited an old message of mine to the point of completely changing its
> meaning - with a new meaning I disagree with as well..
>
> Here's what I said: "The IAU Committee has utterly failed by not including 
> a
> committee
> member of the class and stature of Saul Kripke.  Historians and
> Astronomers...but how about including someone with real experience and
> credentials in aprioricity who has danced with the likes of Kant (and
> usually held his own).  I trust they will remedy this, as good scientists
> not concerned about who shares their turf..."
>
> Here's what you say I said:
>>     Mexico Doug said:
>> > The IAU Committee has utterly failed
>> > by not including... Historians...
>> > but how about including someone
>> > with real experience and credentials
>
> I have no doubt that Owen Gingerich isn't the great historian you 
> researched
> him to be and don't wish you to cut and paste my words erroneously to 
> think
> I would have a different conclusion.  However, you have edited my post to
> appear that I don't recognize the quality of the historians on the
> "Committee".  Read it.  I am recognizing the committee has good 
> astronomers
> and historians!!!
>
> A more valid question is why is this committee needed, not taking for
> granted that it is a needed committee.  And if you Google Saul Kripke you
> will find his forte isn't really history at all, but rather he is the
> closest living example we have today of a Nobel laureate
> Philosopher-linguist whose specialty is this tyope of issue, and when 
> words
> and concepts are arbitrary and when they are a priori - and when change is
> in order and when not, I would hastily suppose as well.
>
> Best wishes, Doug
>
>