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11 janvier 2013
- handle: 10670/1.9tiyik
- isbn: 9781906924256
- eisbn: 9781906924263
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Willard McCarty, « Introduction », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.9tiyik
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1. The Question in Principle In his Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, the great neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch relates a story from his youth. When in 1917 he entered Haverford College, a Quaker institution in the United States, Rufus Jones called him in and asked him about his intentions: ’Warren,’ said he, ’what is Thee going to be?’ And I said, ’I don’t know.’ ’And what is Thee going to do?’ And again I said, ’I have no idea; but there is one question I would like to answer. What is a...