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>From: zeleny@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
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Subject: Re: Ahah, Plato from behind (Re: "revisiting"+false d
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Date: 13 Apr 92 18:34:34 GMT
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In article <kujcb8INNi70@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> 
silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) writes:

>In article <1992Apr13.011832.11030@husc3.harvard.edu> 
>zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>You completely misunderstand the argument.  Try reading it again, using a
>>dictionary next time.  Good luck.

ES:
> Dismissive != discursive

You are very observant for a C programmer.

ES:
> I think MZ adopts Plato's habit of taking things always from behind
> instead of head on.  

See the "Laws" VIII, 836b--d, which will dispel your misinterpretation
of Plato.

ES:
> Personally, I don't think I misunderstand his "argument", 

That's entirely your prerogative.

ES:
>							    and he 
> fails to demonstrate otherwise,

I don't have to.

ES:
>				  so as , I think Victor Hugo, once 
> said in minimalist rejoinder: " ! "

As replied Kurt Vonnegut, "*".


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