On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
— Charles Babbage
I found this per chance on one of my wanderings through the web:
“Philosophy as a Blood Sport”, by Norman Swartz, Dept. of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
Philosophy indeed has the feel of combat to it – but, I wonder, is philosophy without verbal combat even possible?
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