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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic
Subject: Re: An apology to Mr. Krishnaprased (was re: Gode
Message-ID: <1992Apr24.053037.11505@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 92 09:30:36 GMT
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In article <1992Apr24.022943.2529@midway.uchicago.edu> 
trivedi@rabi.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi) writes:

>In article <1992Apr23.210937.11487@husc3.harvard.edu> 
>zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

>>In article <1992Apr23.164131.15250@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
>>wlfong@logos.waterloo.edu (Philip W. L. Fong) writes: 

PWLF:
>>>              An Open Apology to Mr Thirunarayan Krishnaprasad
>>>              ================================================

MZ:
>>You seem to be on the right track; however you are neglecting to extend
>>your humble and profuse apologies to every author of a first-order logic
>>text in general, and Herb Enderton in particular, who were insulted en
>>masse in their professional capacity ...

AT:
>This kind of childish immaturity, even a lack of simple decency, is very
>typical of Mr Zeleny. 

No comment.

AT:
>Someone may or may not like certain textbooks; similarly someone
>may or may not find a particular proof difficult.  However, suggesting
>as Mr Zeleny did that someone should consider a change of carrer is a
>personal insult on an entirely different plane.

Consider it free career counceling.  Someone who boasts of being unable to
understand a textbook proof has no business "working in logic". 


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