From: Daniel Jab <[log in to unmask]>
> A Wise Robin wrote:
>
> "A spellcheck would allow us to realise whetherornot your errors were
> deliberate or simply the result of lamebrained idiocy."
>
> I assure you, they were the result of lamebrained idiocy (who deliberates
> error in any case?). What's the sentence for that anyhow? A Correction
> Institute?
I think it might have been called a Panopticon (Bentham before Foucault) [I
have a URL for the text somewhere, if you're interested]. But if you want
to go back before Wittgenstein, try David Hume.
"The only good philosopher is a Scots philosopher."
Robin
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