Re: AUE in Action [Was: Re: Marie rides again]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:16:18 GMT, "Reinhold (Rey) Aman"
<aman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Richard Bollard kirjoitti:
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>> Reinhold (Rey) Aman wrote:
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>[...]
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>> >Without digging too much, I've found that he apparently earned
>> >a B.A. degree in Mathematics from La Trobe University and works
>> >for the Australian National University's "Australian Mathematics
>> >Trust," where he is Administrative Officer and "manages entries
>> >and publications, interface with schools."
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>> Just shows how misleading the internet is. Not Maths but Humanities
>> (mainly Philosophy). The AMT is at the Uni of Canberra which is not
>> the ANU.
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>Thank you for correcting the erroneous information. As you are in
>Canberra, you're in luck: the library of the Australian Defence Force
>Academy (on Northcott Drive) has _Maledicta_ vols. 1-10 (3,200 pages of goodies).

ADFA. But they kill babies don't they?
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>> Why would an "Adminstrative Officer" need qualifications in Math(s)?
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>I believe it wouldn't hurt to have a degree in Math if one worked for a
>"Mathematics Trust" to understand the jargon; but I confess that I have
>no idea what a "Mathematics Trust" is or does. Knowing mathematicians'
>jargon probably is more helpful in your work than being able to explain
>the deep thoughts of Wittgenstein and Schopenhauer; I mean, how many of
>your colleagues routinely discuss Heidegger and Husserl during lunch?

I leave the jargon to them. I tried to correct one of the writers
misusing "begs the question" (for raises the question) in a
problem-solving book but nobody would buy my argument that you should
be precise with terms like this in a book of that nature.
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>> You tend to go too often from the particular to the general.
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>This statement piqued my curiosity. Would you please give an example or
>two? (No exact quoting is necessary.)
>

One swallow does not a summer make (nothing to do with mathematicians
and fellatio). I sorta meant that one instance of something oftentimes
gets presented as a rusted-on feature of that person. Probably
rhetorical; but as a great believer in the dialectic, I prefer to test
and often discard my assumptions about people. I look for the
exceptions.

>[...]
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>> No but I think you set the tone
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>Are most Australians commaphobes?

That's twice now. Maybe we are a bit sloppy, comma-wise. Thinking
about it, there is less of a natural pause in the way my mind's voice
says that line. I don't agree with the "punctuate as you speak" school
but speech patterns do influence punctuation. That "no but ..." has a
similar rhythm to "yebbut ..." in this case.
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>> Me, I'm more like Mr. DeBakey.
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>That's too cryptic for me. You transplant hearts?

"He's a bit conciliatory". The argument sketch (Python).

(I cut and pasted the name hence the full stop after "Mr" which I
don't use.)
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Richard Bollard
Canberra Australia

To email, I'm at AMT not spAMT.
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