Don and List-


        Would someone explain the general opposition of <italic>solids
</italic>and <italic>surds</italic>, and how the latter  applies to
the scholars in question [Pnin, Vintage p41]?


<fontfamily><param>Courier</param>"There are human solids and there
are human surds, and Clements and Pnin belonged to the latter
variety." </fontfamily>

Many thanks.


Sandy Drescher