Quote from Emilio_Lizardo:
Can you provide me a reference on this? What theologians? When? In what book or treatise?
It never happened. Theologians did debate whether angels were corporeal and Aquinas did take up the question of whether two angels could occupy the same space at the same time, but I can't find any reference to angels dancing on pinheads in the entire scholastic canon.
Try the site below site if you are interested in ancient Catholic theology, however my use of the story, true on not was to point out that we could spend many years debating what random means, is the market random and the philosophy of observation vs. empirical testing.
Talk is cheap and entertaining but money talks even louder. And a profitable trading system is a good way to make money.
IMO, the market is not random, based only on my observation that the systems I've created consistently make a significant profit. The market for all I care could really be a "random non repeating phantasm" to quote Dan Akroyd in the Ghostbusters movie, as long as I make money that's fine with me.
Jerry030
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If you search for the phrase "How Many Angels Can Fit On The Head Of A Pin?" on the web, the great majority of "hits" will treat this as a good example of an extremely foolish question.
This is foolishness!
The question was vital -- a matter of life and death in the 1200's when St. Thomas Aquinas grappled with this question and others, now seemingly trivial.
Aristotle is known, now, simply as a dead Greek. But some 1500 years after his death his philosophy was THE major competition for the Catholic Church.
The Symbol Was Considered MORE Important Than That For Which It Stood -- Because At That Time The Common Man Was NOT Considered To Be Capable Of Understanding The Underlying Truth -- So, He Should Accept The Symbol As The Truth!
This was exactly the opposite of what Aristotle taught.
The Church, in those years, believed in "symbols" and thought that the common man should accept without understanding, what the Church had to say about God and the spirit. God, for the average Catholic resided in the symbol of the crucifix on the wall, or the other ornaments.
Aristotle, unknown today by most, taught that God existed and could be understood by man -- that man did NOT have to just accept blindly what the "elders" taught. Socrates taught much the same, but didn't try, as Aristotle did, to put "science" into his spiritual philosophy.
God to Aristotle is the first of all substances, the necessary first source of movement who is himself unmoved. God is a being with everlasting life, and perfect blessedness, engaged in never-ending contemplation. [Source]
