Still no new license -- but draft text available

Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Thu Aug 3 13:24:37 EDT 2000


Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote:
>> 
> ...
>>     5. Licensee agrees that defining the difference between
>>     clicking and not clicking is an epistimelogical impossibility.

> I'm not for certain if you're a _Dutch_ bot, Tim, but if so, you get a
> point here not only for wit but also for using a 75-cent word like
> "epistimelogical" (which, BTW, I just used the mouse to copy--I didn't
> dare try to spell it myself).

And how right you are, as it's "epistomological"! As far as I know, 
Tim isn't a Dutch bot, but I'm Dutch, and naturally that means I know
what the word means and even what it's spelled like.

> One day, we native English speakers may or may not learn what this word
> means.

So, keeping up the image of Dutch omniscience:

Epistomology is the study of knowledge.

Epistomologists debate on what it means to know something, and therefore
they don't really agree on whether they know they're debating this,
or what knowing this would actually mean.

Philosophers-like-recursion-too-ly yours,

Martijn
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