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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2680351, member: 71723&quot;]The big problem, from MY point of view, IS the near-manical demand for &quot;consistency&quot;. Sorry Mike, that&#039;s really my view. Am I to somehow believe that the &quot;old school method&quot; is the better one for grading coins, but not for nearly every other human endeavor on the stinking planet?</p><p><br /></p><p>We no longer bleed people to treat (most) diseases. We no longer obsess about whether the universe will slow its expansion and gradually come to a stop and re-collapse, because we have found the rate of expansion is accelerating. We, other than a few paleo-economists from the New Right, no longer obsess about monetary aggregates in macroeconomic thought. We no longer have a geocentric model of the solar system.</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, &quot;consistency&quot; is the hobgoblin of tired minds, people who think we no longer think we can learn and improve. I&#039;m willing to almost perpetually chuck out everything I&#039;ve ever learned, because nearly always we&#039;re improving, refining, approaching true wisdom.</p><p><br /></p><p>The body may grow old and wear out; the intellect doesn&#039;t have to do so. We merely choose to allow it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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