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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Subject: Right, Bales...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.152141.5465@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:21:41 GMT
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- In article <7602@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> bobb@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Robert W Bales) writes:
- }
- }Reality check II:
- }
- }In article <1992Nov16.142216.16902@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James
- }Meritt) writes:
- }
- }The issue is whether I lie and whether I have answered specific questions. I
- }wrote an article giving quotes from previous postings. Jim responded:
- }
- }>}>False. Since we disagree, how about SOMEONE ELSE'S evaluation of the
- }>}>contention. BALES says that he has answered himself, MERITT says that
- }>}>he has not.
- }
- }To begin with, the issue is not whether anyone likes or agrees with my answers.
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- Correct. "like" and "agrees with" is not relevant for an answer. Its existence is.
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- }For instance, to the question of what was positive for creation, I gave what
- }I consider to be positive evidence for creation. In objective terms, when
- }somone asks "What is. . . ?", the statement "This is:. . . ." is, by
- }definition, an answer to the question.`
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- Wrong. As you pointed out, if you include yourself, "like" or "agree with" is
- not relevant. Hence, your "I consider" is equally irrelevant.
-
- }But Jim wants to go on others opinions, he says. Someone else wrote:
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- Right. Other than mine, other than yours.
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- }>}My own evalutaion is that he has not answered the questions in any manner
- }>}close to satisfactory.
- }
- }>}IMHO, his assertion that he has answered the questions has not been
- }>}validated.
- }
- }I must disagree. If I have not answered them satisfactorily, I have answered
- }them unsatisfactorily, which means I have answered them!
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- No you have not, in both my opinion and in that of a third party.
- Your word that you answered it is as worthless as your word on the response.
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- Please learn to differentiate between "your assertion that you have answered"
- and "the answer itself". The first was evaluated, the second was nonexistent.
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- --
- James W. Meritt: m23364@mwunix.mitre.org - or - jmeritt@mitre.org
- The opinions above are mine. If anyone else wants to share them, fine.
- They may say so if they wish. The facts "belong" to noone and simply are.
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