{"id":580,"date":"2005-02-09T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2005\/02\/09\/cote\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T20:21:24","slug":"cote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2005\/02\/09\/cote\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"This is a real thing.  Google Alfred Jarry.\">\n<p>&#8220;Pataphysics,&#8221; repeats Ballard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pataphysiques,&#8221; Cote corrects him.  &#8220;It&#8217;s French.  Science asks &#8216;why does the rock fall down?&#8217;  Pataphysiques is the opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It asks why the rock doesn&#8217;t fall down?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why it falls <i>up.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8230;  doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; says Ballard slowly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t avoid the question!&#8221;  Cote&#8217;s grinning now.  &#8220;Think of it as a deliberately wrong premise for a syllogism.  Logic tells us that when your premise is false, you can&#8217;t disprove the conclusion, no matter what it is.  Why does the rock fall up?  Therefore, time isn&#8217;t real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that kind of proof is worthless!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, sure,&#8221; sniffs Cote, &#8220;if you listen to <i>logic.<\/i>&#8220;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pataphysics,&#8221; repeats Ballard. &#8220;Pataphysiques,&#8221; Cote corrects him. &#8220;It&#8217;s French. Science asks &#8216;why does the rock fall down?&#8217; Pataphysiques is the opposite.&#8221; &#8220;It asks why the rock doesn&#8217;t fall down?&#8221; &#8220;Why it falls up.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8230; doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; says Ballard slowly. &#8220;Don&#8217;t avoid the question!&#8221; Cote&#8217;s grinning now. &#8220;Think of it as a deliberately wrong premise for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[503,502],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ballard","tag-cote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}