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cema ([personal profile] cema) wrote2008-01-05 03:32 am

Zebriski point

The point of this whole zebra exercise is, I think, to see what the meaning of the word "know" is. In the original posting, [livejournal.com profile] rezoner suggested there is a cultural difference between what we can call Eastern and Western approaches. In the comments, I saw more versions. Because I have not studied philosophy for a long time (and before learning anything new here I would have first to forget what I was treated to back when), and because I felt like it, I, together with other, perhaps more enlightened but not less playful, LJ friends engaged in a reductio ad absurdum testing of possible borders of the meaning of "know".

And you know what?

[identity profile] quantizator.livejournal.com 2008-01-05 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry. Правильный спеллинг - ферматист (человек, обычно со слабым знанием математики, пытающийся доказать Великую Теорему Ферма с помощью бредовых, примитивных, не имеющих содержания идей)

[identity profile] cema.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Ага, их принято называть ферматистами, хотя правильно было бы фермачами.