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Subject: Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?
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> On 26/06/2013 9:19 AM, Mark Janssen wrote:
>>
>> Did you ever hear of the Glass Bead Game?
>
> Which was Hesse's condemnation of the
> pure-academic-understanding-unbound-by-pragmatic-use approach as mental
> masturbation,

It was not.  He was conflicted.  On the one hand he knew the
enterprise was noble, but on the other he saw it could lead to crystal
palaces that were good to nobody.
-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington