Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 00:33:52 12/21/00
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On December 20, 2000 at 20:52:10, stuart taylor wrote: [snip] >>Buy them all. Seriously. Chess programs are dirt cheap. > >Twas only a poem, what truth do you seek? "Truth is man's approximation of thought to reality" -- Kirkegaard "They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth." -- Plato "What is Truth?" -- Pilate "There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true." -- Bohr "Seek the truth and the truth will set you free" -- JC "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -- Doyle "We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart." -- Pascal If we classify Logic as a kind of truth, we can gain some topicality: "Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination." -- Chesterton "Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game." -- Hardy I guess, I would have to say I am seeking them all.
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