[Buddha-l] The arrow: its removal and examination

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 11:03, Timothy Smith wrote:

> Good God!  Back in '71 I was a philos. major at Berkeley.  I enrolled
> in a symbolic logic class and Copi was the text.

At about the same time, I took symbolic logic in Canada. We used Leblanc and 
Wisdom's textbook. We suffered acute textbook envy of those whose professors 
assigned either Copi or The Logic Book. Then we discovered they envied us. I 
think the main purpose of introductory texts in symbolic logic is to produce 
lifelong post-traumatic stress disorder in the students who use them.

Apparently, similar observations can be made about introductions to Sanskrit 
grammar, Everyone loves the textbook that some other university makes its 
students use and hates the textbook used locally. This could be because 
people in general love learning symbolic logic and Sanskrit grammar 
approximately as much as they love recreational endodonty. 

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes