16/06/2008

Nice...

"Tell me", Wittgenstein asked a friend, "why do people always say it was natural for man to assume that the Sun went round the Earth rather than the Earth was rotating". His friend replied: "Well obviously because it just looks as if the Sun is going round the Earth". To this Wittgenstein replied: "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?"

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