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- From: sysrb@cs.few.eur.nl (Reino de Boer)
- Subject: Re: History (was: a paradox)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.195441.18276@cs.few.eur.nl>
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- Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam
- References: <BzMBpA.1y3@ie.utoronto.ca> <7249712773575@spatial.eid.anl.gov> <1992Dec22.021147.5983@quantime.co.uk> <1h7fleINNrgn@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:54:41 GMT
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- In <1h7fleINNrgn@agate.berkeley.edu>
- chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
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- >Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- > - George Santayana
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- What experience and history teach is this --- that people and governments never
- have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced by it.
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- Hegel,
- Philosophy of History
- Introduction
- --
- Reino R. A. de Boer
- CS Dept, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- email: sysrb@cs.few.eur.nl
- NIS has given `world readable' a somewhat broader meaning (Casper H.S. Dik)
-