Howard Herman wrote: > > As to the hard cased animal in the fairy tale, I believe that refers to > the tortoise who had a race with the hare, and ultimately won because of > his persistence. Wasn't it a semi-paradox stated by Aristoteles? It was about a race between a turtle and an athlete, with the turtle having a headstart. Aristoteles claimed that the athlete could never overtake the turtle, because, during the time the athlete needed to get to the original location of the turtle, the turtle had advanced a bit etc. etc. I'm not sure about Aristoteles, nor the athelete btw ;) -- Martijn van Buul - Pino@dohd.cx - http://www.stack.nl/~martijnb/ Visit OuterSpace: mud.stack.nl 3333 - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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