“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
– George Santayana
This post has absolutely nothing to do with patch collecting, rather it’s about something that was shared with me earlier this morning. Someone pointed me to the blog of Dan Simmons, a science-fiction author whose work I have not read until now. Back in April 2006 he posted a letter on his blog in the form of a short story.
Those who know me, know I like speculative fiction even though I’ve read less of it than I’d care to admit. Some of it is pulp fiction trash, other works are very thought provoking. This post by Mr. Simmons falls in that latter group.
He writes:
…“You were a philosophy major or minor at that podunk little college you went to long ago,” said the Time Traveler. “Do you remember what Category Error is?”
It rang a bell. But I was too irritated at hearing my alma mater being called a “podunk little college” to be able to concentrate fully.
“I’ll tell you what it is,” said the Time Traveler. “In philosophy and formal logic, and it has its equivalents in science and business management, Category Error is the term for having stated or defined a problem so poorly that it becomes impossible to solve that problem, through dialectic or any other means.”
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Tsoiotsi Tsogalii: New Indian Affairs Segment
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