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WHY FOCUS ON A DOT?

June 25, 2009 at 7:13 PM · Science

WHY FOCUS ON A DOT? Alan Jacobs in The New Atlantis takes issue here with Sam Anderson’s article and with William James as well: “This is wrong-headed in a number of ways, but chief among them is this: there’s no good reason for focusing on a dot.”