Jacob = Jakob Friedrich Fries

[Byzantine]

In keeping in the whole LOST tradition of using philosopher names ----> Hume--->Locke--->Rousseau--->Bakunin--->Burke--->Cooper--->Carlyle---> I am going to throw my hat into the ring and say that Jacob is perhaps named after the German philosopher Jakob Friedrich Fries (August 23, 1773–August 10, 1843).


In a nutshell, Jakob Fries proposed the doctrine that human knowledge merely reflects the forms of the human mind and the structures that the human psyche imposes upon the world.


If you want to read up on some heady stuff about Jakob:


http://www.friesian.com/fries.htm

[clueless1der]

I thought it was a play on the biblical Jacob-

"God loves you as he loved Jacob." Was one of the messages that flashed when Karl was tied down in the room, right?

[MsDee]

Maybe its both