Dietary Fibre
Malignd
malignd at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 3 09:02:26 CST 2004
You must admit, Carvill, your "logic" is a little hard
to follow. First you said:
<<I would argue that you don't think Vineland is very
good because you don't appreciate it. That's what
'appreciate' means in this context.>>
Dont want to put words in your trap, but you seem to
be saying that Im merely offering a tautology. That
doesnt follow quite, but I think thats your point.
Now you say:
<<I merely suggested that the reason MalignD doesn't
think it's any good is because he doesn't appreciate
it, rather than the other way round.>>
--which suggests to me that you believe a tautology
has direction, that "doesnt appreciate = doesnt
think its any good," is different logically from
"doesnt think its any good = doesnt appreciate."
Of course, I may be misrepresenting some subtle warp
in your reasoning, but one does one's best mining
intent through the poncey starchiness of your style.
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