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- From: gil@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Alaska Wolf Hunts
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <722406048snx@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <JMC.92Nov21101928@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 04:20:48 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <JMC.92Nov21101928@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
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- > I don't think it is fair for someone from the University of Alaska
- > to be allowed to give that as a return address in arguing with
- > someone from the University of Georgia. It should be a contest
- > of rhetorical skill, and claiming authority from having actually
- > seen the animals in question should be forbidden.
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- Ah, now we have in one your statement of intent for the Internet, and
- clear insight into your modus operandi, McCarthy.
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- No clear identification of the source of authority, no drawing on real
- experience to inform the discourse, no presentation of facts; merely a
- test of rhetorical skill!
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- Is *that* how you managed to get your chair in whatever-it-is, the
- reason we see no substance to your constant political blithering?
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- HUMPH!
-
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