DOXA renders kabod

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Apr 24 11:50:30 EDT 2002


At 1:17 AM +1000 4/25/02, Jonathan Burke wrote:
>Hi Clay,
>
>>
>Your spelling of OccAm is peculiar, I have never seen it with a capitol A.
>>
>
>Same here.  I've seen it spelt 'Occam' and 'Occham', but never with a
>capital (over here the word is spelt 'capital' - a capitol is a feature of a
>Greek city).
>Occam's razor is a brilliant logical tool.

You like? I once knew a Bob who spelled his name B*b and always added a
parenthesis that the "*" is silent!

Sorry, the capital A was meant simply as a way of underscoring that the
final vowel in Occam is an "a", not a "u" as in Clay's "Occum."
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Carl W. Conrad
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