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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 03:01:38 +0100
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri,
- 25 Dec 92 17:44:41 -0800. <9212260145.AA26558@sics.se>
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- >I think you mean my inability to satisfy your misinterpretation.
-
- No, I was just referring to your present emphasis on how deep
- beliefs are found among the good guys, and how nasty fanatics don't
- really have deep beliefs. As to whether we mean the same thing by
- depth (or, as you prefer to put it, DEPTH) this is not a matter we
- need to pursue. For again, the point is only that the bad guys also have
- deep beliefs. Of course, if you now wish to deny that paradigmatic bad
- guys like Hitler can have deep beliefs, that is a different matter.
-
- >Nonsense. I allowed a meaning for the word mockery that involved a
- >playful, inoffensive teasing.
-
- Yes indeed, but our notions of inoffensive teasing and of disrespect are,
- I suspect, too much at variance for your question to be very meaningful.
-