Confucian or Confusion Traditional Cache
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Surprisingly, with regard to the specific concept of uncertainty, not too many philosophers have given us their wisdom. The time has come for some elaboration. (This is # 4 of Hynr’s Uncertainty Series)
The famous Chinese philosopher Confucius said something that might be relevant to the concept of uncertainty: "You might force people to act according a certain principle, but you won't be able to force them to understand it." (Disciples of Confucius, The Analects of Confucius, 8:9) (visit link)
“If anything can go wrong, it will” (Murphy, 1949) (visit link)
“It was in the last place I looked” (Jeo, 2004)
“Wisdom is a wonderful thing, provided, of course, that it is you that has it.” (Hynr, 2006) If others have more wisdom than you, then life gets ugly and one finds oneself full of self-doubt and incertitude. One starts seeing rechargeable batteries in one’s GPSr as being half empty instead of half full. Instead of “precision”, one’s GPSr seems to have “error”.
Are the statements above confucian or just confusion? You be the judge.
The cache placement is near the Philosophy Department of the Univeristy of California, Davis, which is in the “building” (and I use this term loosely) just north of the posted coordinates, known on campus as “The Death Star” (See if you can figure out which “building” that might be). The cache is not indoors (of course, around/in the “Death Star” it is not always clear what is in-doors and what is not).
Also be aware that the Death Star tends to skew GPS signals. This would be an easy drive-up cache if it were not for that and the parking policies on the UCDavis campus. Cache contains only a log book; no pencil.
In your cache log, please phrase your observations in confucian terms (but please use english). Or at least wax philosophically especially if you DNF.
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