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Re: Python for philosophers

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Date 2013-05-15 22:08 -0700
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Subject Re: Python for philosophers
From rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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On May 16, 6:17 am, Tim Daneliuk <tun...@tundraware.com> wrote:
> On 05/15/2013 08:01 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> > On 5/11/2013 4:03 PM, Citizen Kant wrote:
> >> Don't get me wrong. I can see the big picture and the amazing things that programmers write on Python, it's just that my question points to the lowest level of it's existence.
>
> > Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.  Python is a tool, it does what you tell it.  To make an analogy, or maybe to clarify your philosophical view of the world, consider a hammer.  What is the "lowest level of its existence"?
>
> > --Ned.
>
> All You People are making this way too hard.  To understand how
> questions like the OPs ought be resolved, please read:
>
>    http://pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html

Ha Ha! Very funny!
Also a serious reminder of what philosophy tends to become.
[Robert Pirsig wrote about the diff between philosophy and
philosophology]

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> Tim Daneliuk     tun...@tundraware.com
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Re: Python for philosophers Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-15 21:01 -0400
  Re: Python for philosophers Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-05-15 20:17 -0500
    Re: Python for philosophers Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-05-15 23:43 -0400
      Re: Python for philosophers Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-05-15 23:57 -0500
    Re: Python for philosophers alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-05-15 21:49 -0700
      Re: Python for philosophers Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-05-15 23:55 -0500
    Re: Python for philosophers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-15 22:08 -0700
    Re: Python for philosophers Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 01:24 -0500
    Re: Python for philosophers Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-16 14:27 +0000
      Re: Python for philosophers Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-05-16 12:50 -0500

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