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Letters
Letters
Electronics Explained • Virtue and the Value of Life • Dismissing Christianity? • Plato’s Ladder of Food • Singer Hits Right Note • Enquiry Not Certainty • Australian philosophers migrating • Hacking the Illusions • We’re All Desperately Wicked • Mysterious Designs • The Death Penalty
Electronics Explained
DEAR EDITOR: Finding out that electronics is “physics plus wiring diagrams” (letter from JJC Smart, Issue 31) ought to be flattering. It means electronics engineers have a bigger discipline than those snooty physical scientists. But instead I’m rather miffed. When you fancy you’re doing something fundamental, to be told you’re just adding things on to someone else’s subject is a bit of an insult. But I won’t repay like with like.
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