On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:12:32 -0800, you wrote to Freelance Traveller:

>On 1 Jan 2017 at 19:17, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
>
>> The following is a description of what I have been calling a "Horatio"
>> (in my own mind). The reference is to the well-known line from
>> Shakespeare's _Hamlet_: "There are more things in heaven and earth,
>> Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
>
>Most peoipole think the emphasis is on "philosophy":
>
>"... then are dreamt of in your *philosophy*."
>
>This inmplyimng that philosophy is bunk.

Which is another mistake, because in context at the time, 'philosophy'
was a common 'shorthand' for 'natural philosophy', which was the
closest thing to what we'd call 'science' now.

>But as I understand it, the original emphasis was on "your":
>
>"... then are dreamt of in *your* philosophy."
>
>Thus implying that it's *Horatio* who is lacfking in vision.

This, I will agree with, with the addendum that Hamlet may also be
implying that _he, himself_ may suffer (or have previously suffered)
the same lack of vision. But the question is, when I'm quoting it now,
with the meaning of 'philosophy' I give above, just _who_ is Horatio?