Fwd: Re: Fwd: Reading in Braille

From: Andy Blunden (ablunden@mira.net)
Date: Sat Oct 25 2003 - 01:43:25 PDT


>From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
>Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:29:03 +1000
>To: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Reading in Braille
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>Reply-To: jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
>
>Andy,
>
>Thank you for the forwarded e-mail. As a child I was taught to read
>along each braille line with both hands, but to move the left hand
>down to the next line before the right hand had finished reading the
>current line. This is, in fact, what I do in practice.
>
>Life here has been as busy as usual. I attended the International
>Perspectives on Peace and Reconciliation conference in July, which was
>informative and highly enjoyable. Besides that, and attending seminars
>on campus, I have been absorbed in books on semantics and the
>philosophy of language, including Robert Brandom's Making It Explicit,
>in which he acknowledges his indebtedness to Hegelian thought. Michael
>Dummett's work is also of great relevance to my research, along indeed
>with the entire modern tradition of logic and semantics. I have also
>been reading Quine's Word and Object with care, still one of the
>classics of twentieth-century philosophy.
>
>With best regards,
>
>Jason.



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