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Taking things to their illogical conclusions
Created on 2006-10-25 21:59:12 (#11469156), last updated 2009-11-05
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Basic Info| Name: | obandsoller |
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| Location: | United Kingdom |
Bio ob-and-soller (Obs. nonce-wd.)
A person who engages in scholastic disputation. Cf. OB n.2, SOL n.4
1678 S. BUTLER Hudibras III. ii. 165 To pass for deep, and Learned Scholars, Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers.
Oxford English Dictionary
"Science is a never-ending dialogue between theory and measurement. At the intersection of these points lies the experiment, and the most interesting science results either from an unexpected prediction that turns out to be a measurable feature of the real world, or from an ugly fact that tears a gaping hole in a beautiful theory." Roger Highfield.
"Life does not tell stories. Life is chaotic, fluid, random: it leaves myriads of ends untied, untidily. Writers can extract a story from life only by strict, close selection, and this must mean falsification. Telling stories really is telling lies." B.S. Johnson
A person who engages in scholastic disputation. Cf. OB n.2, SOL n.4
1678 S. BUTLER Hudibras III. ii. 165 To pass for deep, and Learned Scholars, Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers.
Oxford English Dictionary
"Science is a never-ending dialogue between theory and measurement. At the intersection of these points lies the experiment, and the most interesting science results either from an unexpected prediction that turns out to be a measurable feature of the real world, or from an ugly fact that tears a gaping hole in a beautiful theory." Roger Highfield.
"Life does not tell stories. Life is chaotic, fluid, random: it leaves myriads of ends untied, untidily. Writers can extract a story from life only by strict, close selection, and this must mean falsification. Telling stories really is telling lies." B.S. Johnson
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