*****2012.05.10
***paulgraham: How to Do Philosophy
*philosophy *excerpts: ... This is all to explain how Plato and Aristotle can be very impressive and yet naive and mistaken. It was impressive even to ask the questions they did. That doesn't mean they always came up with good answers ... In particular, they don't seem to have fully grasped what I earlier called the central fact of philosophy: that words break if you push them too far ...
"Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers," Rod Brooks wrote, "programs written for them usually did not work." ...
