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Re: [OPE-L] why does the debate on the "transformation problem" continue?



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Quoting Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@xxxxxxx>:

>
> Good question.   Maybe the debate on the TP is  for Marxists
> the modern equivalent of debates about the quantity of angels
> who can reside on a point of a needle?
>
> <http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_132.html>
>
Having checked your reference it appears that these debates
were an early investigation as to whether Angels followed Fermi-Dirac
or Bose-Einstein statistics, and as we now know, the latter
has some pretty damned weird consequences.

Paul Cockshott

www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc
reality.gn.apc.org

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