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To: Rollocaster who wrote (9261)	4/18/2006 8:12:14 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78416

I am pretty sure that inductive logic was the province of the Greeks and Euclid as much as deductive logic. Karl Popper and Hume thot that inductive logic was useless as it only served to disprove things and could not prove a theory. This, despite the time honoured technique of inductive proof in mathematics for series etc.. He came up with the theory that all generalities in science were from intuition, which could not be explained. I propose the bold concept of threes. If there are three instances of a theory being true, then it is true enough and any instances of it being not true are simply, inability to follow instructions or differing conditions or incompetent laboratory techniques. A good reason for failure of a theory by testing is the failure to pay royalties to the inventor in order to acquire the enabling information that the statement of the theory obfuscated by design to obviate expensive legal bills that would be incurred by defense of the patent. Now that gold has broken 617 dollars soundly, (and in doing so has brazenly whupped all the paper money mavens that used to haunt these threads), we should have an *AuriK Klamor Kontest*. This is one where we offer a genuine prize for most closely predicting an eventual price of gold.. ( suggested prizes -- a signed copy of Bill Clinton's memoirs .. I will sign it .. or a day old cheese sandwich from the kitchen of Lauren Hutton.. if necessary I will make it using her recipe.)... EC<:-}

To: Rollocaster who wrote (9261)	4/18/2006 9:53:32 AM
From: mailcat8	Respond to of 78416

OT: I really appreciate having Maslow and Gold discussed on this gold thread! Those exchanges between koan and Charters brighten the days. And my days are already pretty bright with POG and POS going up wild as apeshit and watching all those beautiful green numbers in my portfolios get bigger and bigger just like Jim Sinclair said would happen. And by the way, Maslow's hierarchy is powerful stuff. In 1970 I had been a real academic screw-up. Expelled from high school three times, terrible grades in college, flunked out of a master's program in economics. A friend showed me a four page condensation of Maslow's hierarchy which I read while driving south from Washington DC on U.S. 1. Changed my life instantly--here was something academic, intellectual, and INTERESTING! Decided to become a psychologist in just those moments reading Maslow's hierarchy. Studied like a madman for years. M.A. in Psychology 1976, Ph.D. in Psychology 1980. Career still going--and it started with Maslow's Hierarchy. But now studying precious metals investing and getting rich are just as fascinating as studying to become a shrink used to be--koan, Charters, and the intellectual climate of this thread help keep it going.

To: Rollocaster who wrote (9261)	4/18/2006 5:50:37 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 78416

Lester, when I was 26 I went on a 2 year intellectual journey to understand. I had an epiphany one day that I not only did not know why Plato was important, I did not even know the questions, so I laid on my couch and read evry great thinker I oculd think of for two years to see what they knew. Most of the time I had no idea what they were talking about, but I kept reading. Nietzhe was one of my first real heros. I found little in this country except catcher in the rye and it was my discovry of camus and satre that I finally found my people-lol. When nitzche (no secondary education, so cannot spell, good university education-lol) first picked up a book by dostyesky he said "tears came to my eyes as I found a brother". I found in reading a zillion biographies that many of the great thinkers are bitter by old age e.g. einstein. Thomas Mann who won the nobel prize for literature and was hermann hesse's mentor wrote a book "tonio Kroger" which I think was a sort of auto biography. The intellectual ended up a broken janitor. The football star got the woman, and rich and famous-lol. Cheers