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>From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
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Subject: Re: Is there any such thing as informal logic?
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Date: 7 Nov 91 03:35:38 GMT
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In-Reply-To: zeleny@brauer.harvard.edu's message of 6 Nov 91 17:24:13 GMT

Since this post contains no ad hominem remarks, I plan to answer
it.  I'll only say for now that it seems obscure to me, but I'll
try to understand what is being claimed.
--
"There's not a woman in his book, the plot hinges on unkindness to
animals, and the black characters mostly drown by chapter 29."

John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305


