Saturday, April 14, 2007

Hardening of the categories

Admin1: The worst disease afflicting humankind is hardening of the categories.

Doctor Gravytee: Removing the hardened categories inevitably leads to new discoveries.

A1: Academia is the bad cholesterol of science because most hardened categories occur in the academia leading to death of science.

Dr. G: Nature is divided into neat sections which can be taught in 4 years. This proves the anthropocentric principle. If nature were not naturally divided into academic sections humans would never be able to study nature.

A1: I personally believe in the unity of things.

Dr. G: Belief in unity of things leads in no new academic papers therefore it is wrong.

A1: Academic categories are immutable.

Dr. G: If they weren't there would be no human knowledge.

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