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Interesting, do you have a citation? The Wikipedia page mentions nothing like that.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_the_head_of_a_p

• a9h74j 5y ago
  'Countability' is too precise a term for the meaning or context. The article as I read it makes the core point I wanted to express: a derisive reference to scholarship of the time period as obcessed with "angels on pinheads" is probably ungenerous. If you know of JMG one statement of his was roughly this: Every school-child (of that time period) used to know that an 'eternal being' was outside of time, not a being [within time] that would "live forever." That is, 'eternal' apparently had a precise sense [then] which most are now ignorant of. Again, I could be wrong. It is hard for me to look down on curiousity about "what could be outside of time" when it remains a popular science question -- i.e., where did the big bang happen?, etc