On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:25 PM, SKB wrote:  

CK: before you drop us all list-wise on matters PaeleoFological, 
thanks for the "ride," and for the useful refs. to Prof HMG (a most 
authoritarian abbreviation) 
...
Re-donning Karl Popper's bowler-hat/melon (significantly known in 
Scouse as a "blocker!"), we carefully compare the two implications:

(i) IF Shade = Kinbote-Botkin THEN expect strong evidence in 
overlapping content/style/clues of Cantos/Commentary

(ii) IF strong evidence of overlapping content/style/clues THEN Shade 
= Kinbote-Botkin.

Dear Stan,

Thanks for the [oh] ho-my-god (did I get it?) joke.

The only logician I can stomach, and then not for long, is the guy named Elsie with the babies and the crocodiles. Here's my favorite Popper (nothing against the philosopher, but I doubt I have the iq and certainly not the time, to tackle him --- even platonically)





your friend in Plato,
Carolyn
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