Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'imply': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'subject:language': 0.09; 'wrong,': 0.09; 'wrote:': 0.15; 'bieber': 0.16; 'declaimed': 0.16; 'email addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'email name:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:name:dennis lee bieber': 0.16; 'received:66.245': 0.16; 'received:dsl.mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:wlfraed': 0.16; 'url:netcom': 0.16; 'url:wlfraed': 0.16; 'wulfraed': 0.16; 'pm,': 0.16; '(which': 0.20; 'ignore': 0.21; "aren't": 0.22; 'wrong?': 0.23; 'tue,': 0.23; 'url:home': 0.25; 'lee': 0.28; "one's": 0.30; 'taste': 0.30; 'andrew': 0.32; 'certainly': 0.32; "i've": 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.34; 'be.': 0.34; "can't": 0.34; 'example,': 0.35; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'but': 0.37; 'could': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'largely': 0.38; 'header:Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'facts': 0.64; 'subject:!': 0.67; 'subject:The': 0.73; 'encountered': 0.73; 'dennis': 0.77; '-0500,': 0.84; 'beliefs': 0.84; 'eventual': 0.84; 'subjective': 0.84; 'contradict': 0.91; 'subject:come': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: The end to all language wars and the great unity API to come! Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:26:14 -0700 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <6dd92755-c8e9-47ef-aa08-ffffbc3d1893@5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <97a7q6FtqcU1@mid.individual.net> <6a9373cd-4b27-447a-8be4-db74effde338@g16g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> <61329ec7-da3e-49fe-bf25-3c179dc8cd2c@j14g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <05c559ee-983d-414b-a499-5e675e6592c7@5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <8430f2a6-bbfb-489c-8f6b-81bd4a12c261@r18g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> <4E137BC5.2080401@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: user-11faa32.dsl.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1309929986 news.xs4all.nl 21826 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:52032 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:8894 On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:01:57 -0500, Andrew Berg declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > On 2011.07.05 01:14 PM, sal migondis wrote: > > How could a belief be wrong? > Beliefs aren't subjective. One's taste in music, for example, is > largely subjective and can't be right or wrong, but a belief (which has > to do with facts) certainly can be. Pardon???? Most "beliefs" that I've encountered do their best to ignore any facts that contradict the belief. "Facts" imply testable evidence, hypotheses, eventual theorems... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/