Re: VMs: Re: Leo Levitov questions

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

14/10/2004 11:15:14 AM, Ronald Lorenzo <rlorenzomba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Funny you should mention the "fact" of gravity when
>the "fact" of gravity has been socially described,
                                ^^^^^^^^

Oh putain, le mec! Le super connard! Mais c'est
la réincarnation de Derrida et de Lacan, çui-là!

>defined, redefined, and rewritten by first Copernicus,
>then Newton, and then Einstein.  What is gravity?  

Why, it's the property of "gravy" isn't it? That's what
the socially defined linguistic analysis says,
isn't it? (Trust me: I'm a linguist, and, just
like you, I am socially whatever. Perfect credentials,
no?)


>We
>only add and subtract attributes to the "fact" of
>gravity in order to fulfill some sort of pressing
>scientific need.  But that scientific need, as well as
>its "solution", "answer", etc. are merely socially
>arrived at conventions.

So do us all a favour,  go jump out of a fifth-
floor window, and test for us that socially described 
"fact".

Next stupidity, please. (Wow, Google is archiving all
this :-)



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