Python for philosophers

[alex23]

On May 13, 5:13 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> I'm not trying to beat the original Poster up for making an error, but
> demonstrating just how badly off track you can get by trying to reason
> from first principles (as Plato may have done) instead of empirical study
> (as Aristotle or Bacon may have done). Knowledge of how things actually
> are beats understanding of how they ought to be every time.

Nicely put, I may have to copy & paste this into another thread
here...

I always did have a soft spot for William James.