Marion said:
> From a letter to the NY Times by Supreme Court Justice Felix
>Frankfurter, upon the death of Alfred North Whitehead, January 7, 1948:
>
>"That our universities have grave shortcomings for the intellectual life
>of this nation is by now a commonplace. The chief source of their
>inadequacy is probably the curse of departmentalization."
This is probably a good time to repeat a quotation from Alfred North
Whitehead:
"Modern scholarship and modern science...canalize thought and observation
within predetermined limits, based upon inadequate metaphysical
assumptions dogmatically assumed."
I wonder how many LOers are aware that Whitehead was a fine mathematician
before he became a philosopher. If he could see today what modelers do
with mathematics, he would probably go into exponentially-increasing
oscillation.
John N. Warfield
Johnwfield@aol.com
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