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- From: bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu (Bertram Walsh)
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- Subject: Re: The devil and semantics
- Message-ID: <Dec.25.14.28.35.1992.10128@math.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 19:28:35 GMT
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- >In the book "Qu'est-ce que l'autorite?", philosopher J.M. Bochenski
- >says this (I am freely translating from the french):
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- >The poet makes the devil say: "Keep to the words! Thus you will enter
- >into the temple of certainty".
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- >Does anyone know to what Bochenski is alluding?
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- Possibly to the Roman maxim for authors _Rem tene, verba sequntur_ --
- "Keep to the subject, and the words will follow" -- which I think is
- attributed to Cato the Censor.
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- Bertram Walsh Mathematics Dep't Rutgers University New Brunswick NJ 08903
- Combien pale et exsangue est le _shit_ anglo-saxon en face de notre
- _merde_ omnipresant et triomphant! -- Pierre Guiraud in _Les Gros Mots_
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