Re: finding what is using a mount point
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:16:06PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
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> > -ScruLoose- | You don't *have* a soul. You *are* a soul. <
> > Please | You *have* a body, temporarily. <
> > do not Cc me. | - A Canticle For Liebowitz <
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This reminds me of some text from my favorite book: "The Illusion of
Technique" by William Barret, p.79:
"In his sudden and abrupt fashion Wittgenstein lets fall the
observation:
`My attitude toward him is an attitude toward a soul. I am not of the
<i>opinion</i> that he has a soul.' [178e]
The statement dangles there in the text, and is not given the further
explanation it cries out for. I do not think my friend <i>has</i> a
soul, in the sense of some Cartesian substance hidden in his head or
diffused throughout his body. Nevertheless, my attitude toward him is
still that toward a soul. It would be more correct to say that he
<i>is</i> a soul, rather than that he <i>has</i> as soul -- just as, by
the way, it is more correct to say that he is a body than that he has a
body."
//
Your second statement's disagreement with the text is what caught my
eye.
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