Home Pages for Dead Systems

[Ferenc Ruzsa]

Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:
> Before erecting online graveyards, shouldn't we first ask ourselves if
> these systems are really dead?

Dear Vidyasankar,

I greatly sympathize with your point. I would also add that a philosophy is
not dead just because it has no living school supporting it. I think a view
should be called dead only when it is no longer relevant: either it has been
proven false or it is not addressing problems that interest anyone.

> So, these schools may be dying, but let us not bury them alive.
Rather we could let some fresh air into their sick-room.

Yours, Ferenc